There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Girls are soft and pretty.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

Paris is always a good idea.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

The French have got taste.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.