Do we want to see the death of French farming? We absolutely have to support cattle breeding which is in a desperate state since the mad cow and foot-and-mouth crises.

Considering this progress, and in the general interest of the country, I ask farmers to lift the barricades in the coming hours.

There is no chance right now of the farmers lifting their blockades. This was a fake negotiation. We call for real negotiations.

I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not.

The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.