« The urns are double-bottomed, electoral and funeral boxes: they collect, with a slight lag, our dreams and our ashes. When the dreams of one generation fall to ashes, another comes to rekindle the flame. This is good and beautiful. So the jubilation will be of the best will, Place de la Bastille, when another "we won" will invade large and small screens. A nice May, in the Republic, it is celebrated, after five years where the vulgarity will have shamed us so much. The refusal of humiliation by all means, including legal, is part of human and citizen rights. A golden jacket of Neuilly in the chair of General de Gaulle, it was more than a fault of taste, an attack on the minimum of self-esteem that a republican of the rank needs not to lower his eyes in front of his neighbor of landing. »

« No believer, for his part, can consider himself "scorned" or "offended" by a book or film that he is not obliged to read or see. It would give an undue privilege to a particular group of conviction to prohibit any demonstration, image or text for the sole reason that it would deem them offensive or blasphemous. The conflict of convictions is inherent in the pluralism and hustle and bustle of a democratic life, which is for the representatives of the law that the inevitable does not turn to the unacceptable, nor to the zizanie to the brawl. »

« The Israelis must be healed from fear ... and the Palestinians who are afraid of this fear must be relieved. »