“We made it quite clear to the French authorities that it can only be in very specific, limited circumstances,”
Charlie McCreevy
“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 are both of the opinion, and the French president said that quite clearly yesterday, that one can never accept it when it is said that war is unavoidable,”
Gerhard Schroeder
“I can speak French but I cannot understand it.”
Mark Twain
“The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur”
George W. Bush
“'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.”
Dave Barry
“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