French Citizenship Quotes

At no place in this world can I yield a single French right.

Either one is French and can vote, or one is not French and cannot vote.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.

It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the French do.

I'm asking the Israelis to choose their nationality. It doesn't mean that if they don't choose French nationality, they have to leave.

Soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I got a letter from France's interior ministry informing me that I was now French. By the time it arrived, I'd been French for nearly two weeks without even knowing it.

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.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

We have talked about revoking French citizenship for some individuals. Therefore, I have decided to apply for citizenship, which in a way points out the contradictions of this bill that states the forfeiture of French citizenship exclusively to individuals holding dual nationalities. Through this application, I put myself in the midst of the French political debate and discredit everything that might be said against me about this matter.

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.

I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough.