Who said it?

[davidclark6]

Who said about where 'How can you govern a country which has 264 kinds of cheese'?

[flirty41]

I don't think the quote is word perfect but, according to Google, Charles de Gaulle said it! Possibly about France? No doubt the man who knows everything, Quizmonster, will be along shortly to put us right! :-)

[sft42]

"Comment voulez-vous gouverner unpays qui a deux cent quarante-six vari�t�s de fromage?"

This was the original quote whcih translates exactly to the question and it was indeed said by De Gaulle...reported by Ernest Mignon in his 1962 book Les mots du G�n�ral.

[gazzawazza]

Not exactly sft, that translates as 246 varieties. He-he-he!

[Mike340]

.. and he was right. They are a nation of bureaucrats, all trying so hard to be different that they are all clones of each other. Driven by dogma, they won't think of going to the front gate without a little poofter bag containing their 'papers'. Don't let me start on my pet hate - The French