« The French Republic is made up of citizens, not communities. Individuals have their own peculiarities; not the citizens. »

« Only the public power can overcome the thousand and one private interests that draw to boo and dia. »

« The European has desires but, in the end, he does where Washington tells him to do, and forbids himself to do where and when he does not have permission. "Europeans have come to terms with vassalisation," Jean-Pierre Chevènement said yesterday. It's an unpleasant word, like that of overlord. We must say transatlantic relationship, community of values and burden sharing, or burden sharing (the novlangue of diplomats has remarkable anesthetic, even euphoric functions). Vassality is moved, especially since it is experienced in the west as a towing (towards postmodernity) and in the east as a safe bulwark (facing Russia). »