135 Quotes by Nicolas Sarkozy

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.