One cannot govern with 'buts'.

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

France cannot be France without greatness.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.