Jacques Chirac Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

The unanimous vote by the Security Council... offers Iraq a chance to disarm in peace. That was the meaning of France`s initiative since the start.

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

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

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

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?

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

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.

France is doing everything it can, but the problem is that it is impossible to stop Bush from pursuing his logic of war to the end.

One can go to war alone, butyou can`t build peace alone.

The message of the international community is clear - it has united to tell Iraq that it is now time to co-operate fully with the United Nations.

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.