QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Agence France Presse
November 7, 2008 Friday 12:55 AM GMT
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
"When I was a candidate with an impossible name in 1983, the Communist
Party said: ‘Devedjian is an alien’".
— The leader of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party, Patrick
Devedjian, who is of Armenian origin, on the chances of a candidate
of foreign origin in French politics.