At home for example, the badly needed reform of the army has been accompanied by unnecessary malignity, as if a former interior minister imbued with a “police culture” was utterly incapable of understanding the “army culture” and its sense of honor. And his undeniable success in implementing his labor laws, exemplified by sparse street demonstrations, has been undermined by his irrepressible will to provocation, reflected in his gratuitous remark that “today when there is a strike in France, no one notices it!”
例如，在法国国内，急需的军队改革伴随着不必要的狠毒，似乎一个浸透了“警察文化”的前任内政部长绝对不能理解“军队文化”及其荣誉感。萨科齐在执行其劳动法律上不可否认地取得了成功，这一点被稀少的街头示威所证明，然而这种成功被其抑制不住的挑衅所削弱，其挑衅反映在他“如果现在在法国有一个罢工，没有人会注意它”这样无缘无故的言论中。