Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in the North as in the South, and… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable with its hegenomism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' - came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them with their independence. So there will be… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share
Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
