Coming together Quote by Kimberley Strassel

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

— Manuel Valls

France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States… In these terrible circumstances, all French people…

— Jacques Chirac

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

— David Cameron

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

— Alain Juppe

It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just…

— Jacques Chirac

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

France will be on the front line in the fight against terrorism.

— Emmanuel Macron

“They control Europe under the attractive and falsely uniting banner of the “European Union”, the Middle East under the convenient banner of “fighting terrorism”,…

— Louis Yako

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it…

— Marine Le Pen

France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing…

— Marine Le Pen

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

— Vladimir Lenin

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be…

— John McCain