Quote by Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970)

• How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

• The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

• How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?

• How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

• How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?