Facts Quote by Thomas Sowell

France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even before the…

— Noam Chomsky

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

— Bernard Liautaud

Financially, it's true that France does not have the same pulling power as England, Spain or Italy. But this is not the aspect that…

— David Trezeguet

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

France cannot be France without greatness.

— Charles de Gaulle

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although…

— Edward Herrmann

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous…

— Pierre Laval

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.

— Emmanuel Macron

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

— Marianne Faithfull

Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at…

— Marine Le Pen

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

— Margaret Thatcher

France will always be a great nation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte