"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."

"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."

"I am not a man of the left, nor a man of the right. I am a man of France."

"The best way to deal with a problem is to solve it."

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."