Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

There cannot be prosperity without security.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.

It is not your enemies that you need to conquer on the journey to greatness, but yourself.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.