Today I am a candidate in the presidential election, ... in the spirit of responsibility, the foundation of authority.

We must lead in a different way, ... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

Inhuman and barbaric acts were carried out by both sides, even if each side tended for too long to deny its own.

Act of sheer madness.

This is the time to make commitments and see them through. That, in my eyes, is the basis for the relationship of trust that should exist between citizens and their highest representative.

No senior official -- neither the interior minister, nor the defense or justice ministers, nor the prime minister or any of my closest aides -- had any inkling or information about this criminal act before it was committed.

An exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image.

I have asked the defense minister to dissolve the GPS.