Do you think that we don’t have enough on our plate to do without spending time to have our pictures taken? Do you think our prime concern is what glossy magazine we’ll be pictured in, or what restaurant we’re going to go and spend an evening in, or whether we spend an extra night here or not?
— French President President Nicolas Sarkozy, to reporters at a media event with President Barack Obama in Caen, France, observing the press corps’ tendency to focus on the trivial and unimportant.