French Leadership Quotes

DeGaulle says “Europe” but he means “France.”

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

France has a special position: We are Continental Europe's nuclear power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. This special role, though, only makes sense if France fills it as a member state of the European Union. France cannot play this role alone, it must be seen as a part of Europe. I have always insisted on that.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours. I am in favor of a multi-polar world in which France once again takes its position as the leader of non-aligned states, not with the US, not with Russia and not with Germany. One should strive to be neither slave nor master.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

Only France has the right to project herself as a model, because no people has merged its own interest and destiny with that of humanity more than she.

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.

Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks.

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.

I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand.

France will be heeded if it has a message to convey.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.