For us sons of France political sentiment is a passion while for the Englishmen politics are a question of business.

France is not poetic she even feels in fact a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace respect for human rights and development.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

In fact my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris France that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

France after the month of May will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which on many subjects has tended to take useful positions in our view.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.

In a country like France so ancient their history is full of outstanding people so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life for happiness.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran with its fundamentalist Islamic extremist government possessing nuclear weapons.

If it were not for the government we should have nothing to laugh at in France.