"Britain, like Greece, is a maritime power, an island. She is interested in the outside world, not in Europe."

"I am too old to be a democrat."

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

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

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud."