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Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

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I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I love life too much to be bitter.
Nicolas Sarkozy
A page is turning for me. I won’t be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I don’t give any gifts to the rich.
Nicolas Sarkozy
The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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,.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president’s role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.
Nicolas Sarkozy
If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.
Nicolas Sarkozy
To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!
Nicolas Sarkozy
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
Nicolas Sarkozy
Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.
Nicolas Sarkozy
What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.
Nicolas Sarkozy
You won’t hear from me again.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I fought for the values of responsibility, and I’m not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.
Nicolas Sarkozy
France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden…something of which I am not proud.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I’m ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I hope that France – and all of Europe – we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.
Nicolas Sarkozy
You are the eternal France, I love you.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, … Chi-rac! Chi-rac!
Nicolas Sarkozy
France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.
Nicolas Sarkozy
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
Nicolas Sarkozy