Segolene Quotes

#1. Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.

Elaine Sciolino

#2. I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

Segolene Royal

#3. Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

Edward Felten

#4. People better get used to the idea that I exist.

Segolene Royal

#5. Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#6. As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

Segolene Royal

#7. Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

Segolene Royal

#8. My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

Segolene Royal

#9. I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

Segolene Royal

#10. I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.

Segolene Royal

#11. I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

Karin Slaughter

#12. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Segolene Royal

#13. The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

Segolene Royal

#14. A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

Nick Woodman

#15. I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.

Segolene Royal

#16. The way the San Francisco Bay's sun rises and falls ... It's splendor beauty is God's gift to us all. It's glorious colors brings great joy to me ... wish forever there my love and I could be. Peace and love in side of me it always brings. For whenever I see it's majestic sky ... My Heart Sings!

Timothy Pina