305 Quotes 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.

...the Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance...

had decided to write off all of the aid and development debt owed by Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

These countries have been not very well behaved and rather reckless of the danger of aligning themselves too rapidly with the American position.

There is a need to respond strongly and rapidly to the undeniable problems faced by many residents of underprivileged neighborhoods around our cities,

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

There is among French men and women a formidable desire, a taste for entrepreneurship.

Tempers must calm down. The law must be applied in a spirit of dialogue and respect,

Humanity has a rendezvous with destiny, ... Alarms are sounding across all the continents... We cannot say that we did not know!