The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.