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Charles de Gaulle

"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."

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"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."

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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."

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"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."

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"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."

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"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."

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"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."

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"Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges."

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"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"

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"I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons."

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"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."

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"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere."

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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance."
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"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless."
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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
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"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."
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"Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."
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"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
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