Jacques Chirac Quotes

"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
(Related: People, Circumstances, Justification, Name, Want)

"When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: Family, Rights)

"They missed a great opportunity to shut up."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: 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
(Related: Action, Countries, Nation, Right, Road, Will)

"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
(Related: Country, Language, Media, Present, Will)

"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
(Related: Nature, Defense, Direction, Weapons)

"One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: Peace, War)

"One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: Approval, Months)

"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
(Related: Europe)

"Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Thought, Rules, Terrorism)

"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: Art, Europe)

"France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: France, Will)