In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't …

- Nicolas Sarkozy

I love life too much to be bitter.

- Nicolas Sarkozy

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

- Nicolas Sarkozy

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

- Nicolas Sarkozy

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

- Nicolas Sarkozy

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

- Nicolas Sarkozy

If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife …

- Nicolas Sarkozy

America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their …

- Nicolas Sarkozy

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

- Nicolas Sarkozy