Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
The French are very individualistic.
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.
Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We're world leaders in cheese.
I do not separate France from Europe.
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
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