Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa) Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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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.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
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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?
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Compromise in colors is grey.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
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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.
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the only leader in this House that will not compromise.
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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.
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
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A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.
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Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?
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We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.
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What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.
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Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.
