Quotes from Francois Mitterrand

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.