Sarkozy said: "I changed when I visited the Yad Vashem memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. I can remember a long corridor, at the end of which was a large room with thousands of small lights and the names of children 2, 4, 5 years old, spoken out in a low voice like a continual litany. It was the murmur of innocent souls. I said to myself then that politics meant standing up to men’s folly by refusing to let it sweep you away."