Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.