Country Quote by Judy LaMarsh

France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend to maintain that. De Gaulle was…

— Marine Le Pen

“De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: “One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

“One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks.

— Rachel Maddow

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

“Introduced by de Gaulle to protect France’s ‘vital interests’, when there was a possibility that Britain would use it, the French wanted it abolished.”

— Christopher Booker

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

— Will Rogers

“Secretary Hull was even more skeptical of de Gaulle than the President. He was equally opposed to the restoration of France’s colonial empire in…

— Nigel Hamilton

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and…

— Georges Pompidou

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

— Jain

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski