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Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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Nicolas Sarkozy
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Former President Of France
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Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa
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A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
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I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.
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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 to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.
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Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.
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Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.
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Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)
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Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.
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Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.
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France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
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I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.
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Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
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We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!
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You won't hear from me again.
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Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
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Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.
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We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
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I love life too much to be bitter.
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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 keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
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I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.
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I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
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