Jean-Francois Cope

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

I don't like to get in front of people.