Nicolas Sarcozy

What a breath of fresh air after Chirac.  When his plan to twin French students each with a Holocaust victim whose life they were to study came under fire for being too traumatizing, he responded:

"If you do not talk to them of this tragedy, then you should not be surprised if it repeats itself. It is ignorance that prompts the repetition of abominable situations, not knowledge. Make our children into children with open eyes," Sarkozy said.