"I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt."

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Source : "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.

Francois Hollande

#Children Quotes #Debt Quotes #Want Quotes

“You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them”
“When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.”
“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”
“History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
“There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.”
“It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.”
“I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.”
“I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.”

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