"You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so."

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"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."

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"As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior."

Behavior

"When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country."

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"I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself."

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"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."

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"The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier."

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"There wasn't anti-Semitism in France."

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"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."

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"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."

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"There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic."

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