Quotes by Jacques Chirac

About Jacques Chirac:

Jacques René Chirac is a French statesman, who served as the President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Jacques Chirac

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

Jacques Chirac

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

Jacques Chirac

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

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Jacques Chirac

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

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

Jacques Chirac

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

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

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

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

Jacques Chirac

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

Jacques Chirac

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

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

Jacques Chirac

Author Bio

  • NameJacques Chirac
  • Description22nd President of the French Republic
  • BornNovember 29, 1932
  • CountryFrance; Russia
  • ProfessionPolitician; Statesman
  • AwardsGrand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour; Grand Cross Of The National Order Of Merit; Ig Nobel Prize; Knight Grand Cross Of The Order Of The Bath; Order Of Isabella The Catholic; Order Of The White Eagle; Order Of The White Lion; Medal "In Commemoration Of The 300th Anniversary Of Saint Petersburg"; Order For Services To The Fatherland 1st Degree; Order Of St. Olav