Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equa...

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.