“When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France”
Charles Krauthammer
“Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and remember who you are!”
Lewis Carroll
“When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken”
Winston Churchill
“I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.”
Golda Meir
“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.”
Will Ferguson
“We had explored the possibility of the French sending us Mirage, and the French were willing; and when this became known, the Americans reacted by announcing publicly that they would not allow those armaments to enter Nicaragua and that they would bomb the Nicaraguan ports.”
Daniel Ortega
“There was a misunderstanding with France and the French,”
Craig Stapleton
