Charles de Gaulle quote: How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred...

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

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Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

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