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The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
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If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.
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Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone;
but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.
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The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.
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France does not practice revenge.
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In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.
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The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.
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We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.
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Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.
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Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.
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In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!
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The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
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Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.