For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

The best way to guard your heart was to trust a good man to take care of it for you.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Never be afraid of your Bibles.

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black