Top 64 Quotes About Sarkozy
#1. It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
Harvey Weinstein
#2. I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
Francois Hollande
#3. 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
#4. People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.
Claude Lelouch
#5. Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.
Max Gallo
#6. Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
Francois Hollande
#7. France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.
Francois Hollande
#8. When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
Edi Rama
#9. I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.
Jean-Francois Cope
#10. He was enraged and bitter and hoped for a personal meeting with Sarkozy where he would recount to him France's colonial history in Africa and make him see reasons why her policy of assimilation was a voyage to the destruction of Africa, its people, land, culture and sense of belonging.
S.A. David
#11. Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly understand why Angela Merkel supported Nicolas Sarkozy because of the action they have taken together, even though I have questioned its results, and because of their shared political sensibility.
Francois Hollande
#12. You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.
Azzedine Alaia
#13. You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.
Tariq Ramadan
#14. Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.
Francois Hollande
#15. In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#17. Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#18. Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#19. If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#20. We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less
Nicolas Sarkozy
#21. A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#22. These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain Badiou
#23. France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#24. I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#25. Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#26. I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#28. 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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#29. I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#30. Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!
Nicolas Sarkozy
#31. The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#32. If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#33. We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#34. Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#35. France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#36. Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#39. We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#40. Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#42. What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#44. I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#46. I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#47. Solving a problem created by debt ... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy
#48. Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#49. The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding ...
Nicolas Sarkozy
#50. We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!
Nicolas Sarkozy
#51. From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#52. Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy
Nicolas Sarkozy
#53. Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#54. 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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#55. There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#56. I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#57. Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#58. We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#59. 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.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#61. It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#62. France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden ... something of which I am not proud.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#63. I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#64. I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French ... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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