I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Old age is a shipwreck.
