Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role..

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

God is dead but my hair is perfect..

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….

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well..

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism..

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity..

It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, eve….

People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ide….

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 ….