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Jacques Chirac
November 29, 1932 -
Nationality: French
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: French Statesman

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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?

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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