The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the qu….

I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a lo….

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name ….

God is dead but my hair is perfect..

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy..

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism..

I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the ….

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always b….

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by ….

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal..

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive..

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places..

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved mili….

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of tha….

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism..

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen..

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes..

Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of….

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil..

If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fa….

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains..