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The 35-hour week
"It will never be possible to stress enough the evil that the 35-hour week has done to our country. How can we retain this mad idea that by working less, we will produce more wealth and create jobs?"
Taxation
"We've got the highest taxes in Europe. France's problem is we're paying too much tax."
The English
"Do we ask ourselves why the English buy our houses in the Dordogne and the Périgord, in the Lubéron, in Savoie and in many other regions? ... I have nothing against the English, who are our friends, but it is not my ambition that the most beautiful villages of France become holiday resorts reserved for the British."
"Certain people in France call me Sarkozy the American. I'm proud of it. I'm a man of action. I do what I say and I try to be pragmatic."
Immigration
"Who can't see that there's a clear link between the uncontrolled immigration of 30 or 40 years and the social explosion on our housing estates?"
"If people don't like being in France they only have to leave. We've had more than enough of always having the feeling that we must apologise for being French."
His reputation
"Why so much hatred [directed at me]? Perhaps it's because I say out loud what everyone quietly thinks."
On his suggestions that delinquent youths on poor estates were scum and should be cleaned out with a power hose
"I regret nothing."
EU expansion
"'I want an integrated Europe, in other words, a Europe that has borders ... Turkey is in Asia Minor."
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