As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.