Lionel Jospin

We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.