No nation has friends only interests

Middle East nations are getting more petro-dollars as (oil) prices rise, and they're not putting it back into paper assets. They're trying to protect the value of their profits -- just like in the 1970s -- so they're buying gold.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)

Nothing more advances authority than silence.