SEGOLENE ROYAL

Calm down. If you want to be President you have to be calm.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

Why should one have to be sad, ugly, and boring to go into politics these days.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.

We need to have close cooperation between schools and families.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

We need to have close cooperation between schools and families.

Why should one have to be sad, ugly, and boring to go into politics these days.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.