France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

In fact my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris France that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

France after the month of May will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which on many subjects has tended to take useful positions in our view.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.

In a country like France so ancient their history is full of outstanding people so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.