Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician, and doctor. He is co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010 he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the center-right Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments.
Read more about Bernard Kouchner: Humanitarian Actions, Minister in Left-wing Governments, UN Representative in Kosovo, On The US-led Invasion of Iraq, On Europe, Candidate For UN Positions, French Foreign Minister, Positions Held
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“What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy? The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids you even to learn.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)