How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
I was France.
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means...
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.