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Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

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

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.