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Jacques Chirac
French
Statesman
About the author
If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#World
#Commitment
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.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Want
#People
#Circumstances
#Name
#Justification
When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Family
#Rights
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Opportunity
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?
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Action
#Right
#Will
#Road
#Nation
#Countries
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.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Will
#Country
#Language
#Present
#Media
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.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Weapons
#Defense
#Nature
#Direction
One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#War
#Peace
One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Months
#Approval
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Europe
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#War
#Terrorism
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.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Life
#Thought
#Rules
#Terrorism
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Art
#Europe
France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
Jacques Chirac,
French
Statesman
#Will
#France