Nicolas Sarkozy
16 quotes
"To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!"
"We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen."
"I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard."
"If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open."
"If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country."
"The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice."
"Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family."
"What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation."
"I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada."
"L'islamisation de l'Europe est inéluctable."
"I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar."
"This case has been for me the stations of the cross. But if that was the price to pay for the truth to come out, I am ready to accept it … I still have confidence in the justiceof our country."
"Irritable, rash, impetuous, disloyal, ungrateful, and un-French."
"It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more."
"I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency."
"What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: ‘Come, and everything will be given to you.’ She said: ‘Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."