Quotes About Mitterrand

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

Izquierda era la de Mitterrand, la de Felipe González, a diferencia de la supuesta izquierda de Chávez o la de Castro, quien impuso la felicidad con la fuerza de las bayonetas…

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

Mitterrand was a bold man," Langdon replied, splitting the difference. The late French president who had commissioned the pyramid was said to have suffered from a "Pharaoh complex." Singlehandedly responsible for filling Paris with Egyptian obelisks, art, and artifacts, François Mitterrand had an affinity for Egyptian culture that was so all-consuming that the French still referred to him as the Sphinx.