"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"The only way to deal with a problem is to face it head on."

"One cannot be a leader unless one is first a man."

"The difficult thing in politics is not to know what to do, but to do it."