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My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.

I am the herald of the Great King.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.