Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

- Francois Mitterrand

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Sov…

- Francois Mitterrand

To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal …

- Francois Mitterrand

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist ab…

- Francois Mitterrand

All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

- Francois Mitterrand

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

- Francois Mitterrand

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

- Francois Mitterrand

In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say:…

- Francois Mitterrand

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

- Francois Mitterrand