If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.
I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.
If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.
It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.
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