Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Vous n'avez pas, M. Mitterrand, le monopole du cœur. (You do not have, Mr Mitterrand, the monopoly of heart).

— Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

The rejection of the Constitutional treaty by voters in France was a mistake that should be corrected.

— Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them directly. (...) This approach of 'divide and ratify' is clearly unacceptable. Perhaps it is a good exercise in presentation. But it would confirm to European citizens the notion that European construction is a procedure organised behind their backs by lawyers and diplomats.

— Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

This text is, in fact, a rerun of a great part of the substance of the constitutional treaty.

— Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Europe without Greece is like a child without a birth certificate

— Valéry Giscard d'Estaing