I want only one thing: to rally the French people around a
new French dream.
Nicolas Sarkozy
On winning the most votes in first round
of the French presidential election, April 2007. |
If living in France bothers some people, they should feel
free to leave a country they don't like.
Nicolas Sarkozy
UMP meeting 22 April 2007. |
I'm inclined, personally, to think that you are born pedophile,
and it's a problem that we don't know how to treat this pathology.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Interview with Philosophie magazine, April
2007. |
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Interview with Charlie Rose, televised
31 January 2007. |
I want to be the president of a reunited France.
Nicolas Sarkozy
When nominated as French presidential election
candidate by Union for a Popular Movement, January 2007.
|
Globalization requires us to reinvent everything - to think
of ourselves as compared to others.
Nicolas Sarkozy
When nominated as French presidential election
candidate by Union for a Popular Movement, January 2007.
|
We have no purchasing power because we don't work enough.
The French economy lacks fuel.
Nicolas Sarkozy
On TF1 television, January 2007.
|
Merit and labour are values that should be rewarded more and
more. We must applaud and be thankful to the France that gets
up early.
Nicolas Sarkozy |
You've had enough, haven't you? Enough of this rabble? Well,
we're going to get rid of them for you.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Comments about young delinquents in Paris
suburbs, made just before the October/November 2005 riots. Sarkozy
was answering a woman who asked him if he would help them "to
get rid of this rabble". |
Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody
can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better:
it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Summer meeting of the Young Populars in
La Baule, 4 September 2005. |
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