But in what can be seen as a response to the response, Chief Justice French remarked: [j]udicial review is an inescapable feature of any society governed by the rule of law under a written constitution where the legislature and the executive have limited powers.
Accused by L'Equipe, the French sports daily newspaper, of uttering lurid anti-French remarks while being kept in a queue at an airport on Sunday night, he provided a response quite as entertaining as the race itself.
The French leader remarks that he rather likes the American president because "he doesn't even take the trouble to pretend that he's thinking".
Below are excerpts from French's remarks at a Bass Connections information session for faculty.
Alanood, a saleswoman at a counter offering French cosmetics, remarked, "They don't trap women here".
"She is a Princess," the French ambassador remarked, "who can act any part she pleases".
On Thursday, Mr. Sarkozy moved with visible ease among the business leaders, as if, one chief executive of a large French company remarked, "he was one of us".
Commenting on my fluency in French, he remarked, "I am glad to see that you are cosmopolitan" - as if he felt that we shared a bond as products of France's FITGgrande mission civilisatrice.
As Charles Dubost, a French prosecutor, remarked of the shock caused to German wartime leaders by the showing of the American documentary movie "Nazi Concentration Camps" at Nuremberg in 1946: "It is possible that they have no accurate or concrete picture in their minds of the consequences of their orders".
Adam Gopnik recently wrote in The New Yorker: "[A] French journalist remarked that leafing through a copy of FORBES is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship".
