Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

I love life too much to be bitter.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

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.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

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."

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.

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.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

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.

I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.