Mitterrand Quotes

#1. In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."

Francois Mitterrand

#2. 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

#3. I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

Francois Hollande

#4. The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.

Francois Hollande

#5. I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.

Robert O. Paxton

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

Francois Hollande

#7. Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

Francois Hollande

#8. To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. 'Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are. [ ... ] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.

Francois Mitterrand

#9. If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

Duke Ellington

#10. To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

Bjorn Lomborg

#11. Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

Francois Mitterrand

#12. I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

Francois Mitterrand

#13. All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

Francois Mitterrand

#14. Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

Francois Mitterrand

#15. Oh my God! What was I going to do? How did I get here? I was just minding my own business and someone lobbed a grenade into my life - in the form of Jack Eversea.

Natasha Boyd

#16. a genius of means, barren of ends

Perry Anderson

#17. The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

Francois Mitterrand

#18. Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

Walter Benjamin

#19. Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

Francois Mitterrand

#20. France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Francois Mitterrand

#21. France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

Francois Mitterrand

#22. Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

Francois Mitterrand

#23. A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Francois Mitterrand

#24. Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives - and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy.

Ayn Rand

#25. Autistic people are individuals. We are not all maths geniuses, we don't all like trains. I am hopeless with technology and much prefer painting. There is no 'typical Autistic.' But I think we probably all like being respected and validated

Jeanette Purkis

#26. For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

Francois Mitterrand