34 Interesting Quotes By Jacques Chirac

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

Isolated and limited vision problem.

  

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.

  

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

  

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.

  

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

  

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

  

The law must have the last word.

  

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

  

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

  

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

  

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.

  

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.

Life

  

If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

  

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.

  

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

Peace

  

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Family

  

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

  

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

  

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 sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

  

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 sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists.

  

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 we are indifferent. The Earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible. It is time now to open our eyes

  

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 time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

  

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 the United States of America. In these horrifying circumstances, the entire people of France, and I want to emphasize this, stand by the people of America. They express their friendship and solidarity in this tragedy. Naturally, I want to assure President Bush of my total support. France, as you know, has always condemned and unreservedly condemns terrorism, and considers that terrorism must be combated by all possible means.