Reuters quote of the day, December 24

LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) Following is a notable quote from history. ''Our policy is not along the same lines as the policy of the United States. It's not because we want it to be different. It is because our thinking is different.'' -- Maurice Couve de Murville, longest-serving French foreign minister who later became prime minister, in an interview in U.S.

News and World Report in March 1964. He died on December. 24, 1999.

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