I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

[History is] petrified imagination.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.