Jacques Chirac Quotes

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

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 culturally marginalized.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

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 basic rules of international life.

The law must have the last word.

I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.

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 French people.

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

Isolated and limited vision problem.

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.

The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.

Our approach and our vision ... is identical.

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.