Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is a retired French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.

Born in Paris, he is of 1/2 Hungarian Protestant, 1/4 Greek Jewish, and 1/4 French Catholic origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002, he was Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur during François Mitterrand's second term. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term he served as Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Finances. He was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement party from 2004 to 2007.

He won the 2007 French presidential election by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin to Socialist Ségolène Royal. During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis , the Russo-Georgian War and the Arab Spring . He initiated the reform of French universities and the pension reform . He married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni in 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris.

In the 2012 election, François Hollande, candidate of the Socialist Party, defeated Sarkozy by a 3.2% margin. After leaving the presidential office, Sarkozy vowed to retire from public life before coming back in 2014, being subsequently reelected as UMP leader . Being defeated at the Republican presidential primary in 2016, he retired from public life. He has been charged with corruption by French prosecutors in two cases, notably concerning the alleged Libyan interference in the 2007 French elections. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. January 1955
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Famous Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

“The Islamization of Europe is inevitable.”

L'islamisation de l'Europe est inéluctable.
Conversation with Philippe de Villiers, quoted in The Brussels Journal (6 June 2009) http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3955

“The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.”

http://www.drownedmadonna.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17994

“To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!”

National meeting of UDR in Nice, June 1975

Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

“I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.”

October 18, 2008, Sarkozy becomes the first French President to address the National Assembly of Quebec.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=079abc91-ed93-41c2-bce4-0579af73ea32&p=1

“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar.”

Telling to Obama, Nov 8, 2011. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-mideast-netanyahu-sarkozy-idUSTRE7A720120111108

“Sod off then, asshole”

Casse toi alors, pauvre con.
Sarkozy outburst at farming fair http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7261834.stm, BBC News online, 24 February 2008
On visiting the Salon de l'Agriculture, 24 January 2008, to a member of the public who had refused to shake Sarkozy's hand because he did not want to be dirtied.

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