While we live, let us live.
Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.
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.
I love life too much to be bitter.
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
Chinese people are indignant. Indignant! For decades, despite everything, they tried to make peace with the West. They are in fact the most peaceful big nation on Earth and what do they get in return? They get insults, provocations and intimidation.
And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?