Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa) Quotes

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

Nicolas Sarkozy

• Compromise
• France
• Serving

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• In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Wine
  • France
  • Cheese

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Men
  • You
  • Serving

• The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • First
  • Serving

• Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • History
  • Spanish
  • France

• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • France
  • Italy

• The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Run
  • Protection
  • Serving

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • English
  • Same
  • France

• In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Wealth
  • Tax
  • France

• Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Trade
  • Investment
  • France

• The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Fighting
  • France
  • Racing

• I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?

  

  OMI
  • Think
  • Know
  • Compromise

• Compromise in colors is grey.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Compromise
  • Colors
  • Grey

• Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Compromise

• Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Different
  • Academic
  • Serving

• I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Compromise
  • Debt
  • Spending

• the only leader in this House that will not compromise.

  

  Jack Layton
  • House
  • Leader
  • Compromise

• It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Help
  • Memories
  • Compromise

• There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Labor
  • Division
  • Industries

• When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Harmony

• I'm a professional at what I do. I'm an actor. I've been on enough movie sets to know the difference between a stage light and an apple box. I know the difference. Why? Because I've been around it long enough and I know.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Actors
  • Boxes
  • Apples

• Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

  

  Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Compromise
  • France
  • Serving