Quotes by Jacques Chirac

• If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.
• 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.
• When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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, butyou can't build peace alone.
• One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
• 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.
• 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 construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
• France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.