Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

“Vous n'avez pas, M. Mitterrand, le monopole du cœur. (You do not have, Mr Mitterrand, the monopoly of heart).”

“The rejection of the Constitutional treaty by voters in France was a mistake that should be corrected.”

“Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them directly. (...) This approach of 'divide and ratify' is clearly unacceptable. Perhaps it is a good exercise in presentation. But it would confirm to European citizens the notion that European construction is a procedure organised behind their backs by lawyers and diplomats.”

“This text is, in fact, a rerun of a great part of the substance of the constitutional treaty.”

“Europe without Greece is like a child without a birth certificate”