Famous Jacques Chirac Quotations

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"[President Jacques Chirac ordered his government today to build more subsidized housing and to draw up a renovation plan for the most rundown apartment buildings in Paris.] Faced with this situation we must act, ... We urgently must ensure the safety of people living in precarious housing."
by Jacques Chirac
"a man of courage and conviction who has incarnated, for 40 years, the fight of Palestinians for the recognition of their national rights."
by Jacques Chirac
"France is mourning,"
by Jacques Chirac
"France does not have a problem with NATO, no problem,"
by Jacques Chirac
"I absolutely share the feelings of President Clinton that there can be no economic development aid to a regime which is not democratic,"
by Jacques Chirac
"I am convinced that, in view of the political and technological evolution of humanity, a major power will by necessity be democratic,"
by Jacques Chirac
"I heard and I understood your call so that the Republic lives, so that the nation rallies together, so that politics change,"
by Jacques Chirac
"I requested a budget to support employment, spending power and the preparation of the future. This 2006 budget meets this requirements,"
by Jacques Chirac
"I want to stress how much this situation is unworthy of the natural requirements that we owe to people here in France, whatever their origin or nationality,"
by Jacques Chirac
"I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]"
by Jacques Chirac
"if we want, in this troubled and unsettled international context, to guarantee the security of our citizens and influence the international choices that affect our interests."
by Jacques Chirac
"It is a measure of protection and precaution,"
by Jacques Chirac
"It is totally out of the question for us to go a single step further,"
by Jacques Chirac
"It's time to go on the offensive,"
by 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."
by Jacques Chirac
"not a force of division, but a force of harmony."
by Jacques Chirac
"one of the greatest contemporary humanist figures."
by Jacques Chirac
"Our relationship is going to be long and no doubt fruitful. As far as our views on the France-German relationship and the demands of European construction are concerned, we were in complete agreement,"
by Jacques Chirac
"President Bush asked me if I was going to the session, and I said it was possible, and President Bush said 'I'd be happy to meet you on that occasion,' and I said 'naturally',"
by Jacques Chirac
"Secularity is one of the republic's great achievements, ... It plays a crucial role in social harmony and national cohesion. We must not allow it to be weakened."
by Jacques Chirac
"strong and cannot be challenged by anybody."
by Jacques Chirac
"The bulletins may have been presented as medical but in reality they were texts drawn up by the patient and his advisers. This wasn't medical communication but the filtering out of politically-based information,"
by Jacques Chirac
"The use of civilian nuclear energy, which is perfectly legitimate, must not serve as a pretext for pursuing activities that could actually be aimed at building up a military nuclear arsenal,"
by Jacques Chirac
"The United States will continue to have an approach of respecting nations that agree with us and respecting nations that disagree with us."
by Jacques Chirac
"The vocation of Europe and of European institutions is also, and above all, to defend Europe, to defend the economic, financial and social interests of Europe,"
by Jacques Chirac
"The world is not only a market. Our societies need rules. The economy must be in the service of man and not the reverse."
by Jacques Chirac
"This is necessary to speed up the return to calm,"
by Jacques Chirac
"Those who admire you -- and they are as numerous in France as they are in your own country -- know that this extraordinary performance represents courage, effort, determination."
by Jacques Chirac
"Today the heart of every French man and every French woman beats in unison with those of their brothers and sisters in Martinique,"
by Jacques Chirac
"We can't reveal the secrets of the confessional."
by Jacques Chirac
"We have institutions that work, we have pressed ahead with enlargement which will take place on May 1, ... There is no drama or crisis with a capital 'C'."
by Jacques Chirac
"we have the same approach."
by Jacques Chirac
"We should look forward not back -- to a unified, democratic and peaceful Iraq, ... There is no disagreement here."
by Jacques Chirac
"What I'm saying is, you have to look at the problems, file by file, case by case, and solve them, ... Find a right way to solve them. But we can't do that without the United Nations. It won't work."
by Jacques Chirac
"When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door."
by Jacques Chirac
"Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?"
by Jacques Chirac
"will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country, our continent from the yoke of Nazi barbarity. It will never forget what it owes America, our eternal friend."
by Jacques Chirac


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