Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible. . . just bad enough to make it neccessary.
I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar.
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,.
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
I can always create new material. That's something I can control.
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.