I&#39;m not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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Written By Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Written By Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Written By Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Written By Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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