Jacques Chirac Quotes

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• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
• If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and…
• You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.
• ...the Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance...
• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the…
• 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…
• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is…
• 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 the…
• It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just struck…
• France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand…
• One can go to war alone, but you can't build peac alone.
• As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.
• 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 such…
• I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.
• Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled.
• The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
• One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
• These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most…
• Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.
• I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the…

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