Nicolas Sarkozy

"This case has been for me the stations of the cross. But if that was the price to pay for the truth to come out, I am ready to accept it … I still have confidence in the justiceof our country."

"What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation."

"If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country."

"I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada."

"I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard."

"I want to issue a call to everyone in the world who believes in the values of tolerance, freedom, democracy, humanism, to all those who are persecuted by tyranny, by dictatorships."

"Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family."

"If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not we…"