We Have Chased Away The Clouds, The

Not In The Constitution, But I Would Propose A Law To The French Parliament That Provides For Reducing The Budget Deficit Year By Year, Until We Have Reached A Balanced Budget By 2017.

I Don't Want To Drive The Markets Crazy. I Don't Want To Create Trouble, But Rather Order And Rules And Norms. We Have To Struggle Against Financial Excesses, Those Who Speculate With Sovereign Debt, Those Who Develop Financial Products Which Have Done So Much Harm.

What The French Want Is Coherence, Stability And Justice. If I Am In A Favorable Position Today, It's Because My Fellow Citizens Want To Make The Effort To Straighten Out The Country, And At The Same Time They Want It To Be Just And Equitable.

Austerity Need Not Be Europe's Fate.

Mitterrand Had A Sense For Symbols, And He Was The First Socialist President Since 1958. He Wanted To Show That There Is Historical Continuity, A Connection With The Great Figures Of French History.