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
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
Jacques Chirac
3
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
4
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
5
One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone.
Jacques Chirac
6
One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
Jacques Chirac
7
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Jacques Chirac
8
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
9
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac
10
The message of the international community is clear - it has united to tell Iraq that it is now time to co-operate fully with the United Nations.
Jacques Chirac
11
The unanimous vote by the Security Council... offers Iraq a chance to disarm in peace. That was the meaning of France's initiative since the start.
Jacques Chirac
12
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
13
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
Jacques Chirac
