Laurent Fabius Quotes

#1. I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

Laurent Fabius

#2. We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

Laurent Fabius

#3. I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

Wynton Marsalis

#4. There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

Laurent Fabius

#5. France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

Laurent Fabius

#6. Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Robert Redford

#7. At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Laurent Fabius

#8. Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

Laurent Fabius

#9. The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Laurent Fabius

#10. I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius

#11. This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

Laurent Fabius

#12. Shopkeepers are not bankers.

Laurent Fabius

#13. This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Laurent Fabius

#14. The proverb says revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but Ronson Fast-Lite had yet to be invented when they made that one up.

Stephen King

#15. The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

Laurent Fabius

#16. The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Laurent Fabius

#17. For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

Laurent Fabius

#18. Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

Anne Enright

#19. Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

Bodhidharma

#20. But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Laurent Fabius

#21. If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

Laurent Fabius

#22. The night I won at the Apollo, I was only doing it for the $10.

Sarah Vaughan

#23. [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

Will Cuppy

#24. Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Brian Setzer

#25. The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius

#26. It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods.

Anne Ursu

#27. Stars are not afraid of you surpassing them; if they were, they would not light your way to the edge of the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo