Segolene Quotes & Sayings

People better get used to the idea that I exist. — Segolene Royal

Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time. — Elaine Sciolino

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends. — Segolene Royal

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush. — Segolene Royal

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally. — Segolene Royal

I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left. — Segolene Royal

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor. — Alan Lomax

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. — Susan Sontag

Christ ... didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease. — Billy Graham

Well it happened, you know? And There's nothing we can do about it now. You can blame and blame yourself, thinking og thw things you might've done differently, or ask if maybe it was her time, and ask if this has something to do with god, maybe, but sometimes I think things just happen. There's nothing you can do about it-you just gotta deal with it. Sometimes life really sucks. you know? sometimes it just sucks — Sara Shepard

I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own. — Harold Bloom

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development. — Segolene Royal

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush. — Segolene Royal

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time. — Segolene Royal

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity. — Segolene Royal

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France. — Segolene Royal