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The law must have the last word.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Last Words
Lasts
Law
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Isolated and limited vision problem.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Isolated
Problem
Vision
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They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Opportunity
Great
Great Opportunity
Shut Up
Missed
Shut
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Our approach and our vision ... is identical.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Approach
Identical
Vision
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As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
War
Concerned
Mean
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One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Democracy
Doe
Vehicle
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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Build
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Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Debate
Hatred
Intolerance
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I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Accepting
Economics
Housewife
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Art
History
Construction
Europe
Possible
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
France
Institutions
Needs
Insist
Responsive
Updated
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The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Energy
Firsts
Kyoto Protocol
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I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Favour
Way
Would Be
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I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Believe
I Believe
Ideas
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The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Agriculture
Done
Mad Cow Disease
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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Politics
War
Borders
Systematic
Terrorism
Face
Become
Weapon
Seldom
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This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Europe
Example
Faster
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No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Accepting
Anarchy
Names
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Action
Claims
Country
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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Door
Join
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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Accord
Appreciate
Approval
Months
Ready
Two
Accept
Month
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If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Capable
Commitment
Pioneering
Prove
Listened
Shall
Showing
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Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Circles
Weapons
World
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You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Country
Culture
People
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Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
People
Principles
Sovereign
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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 / Former President Of France
Bulgaria
Diminish
Europe
Irresponsible
Joining
Romania
Way
Better Way
Chances
Particularly
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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 / Former President Of France
Action
Claims
Other Countries
Nation
Countries
One Nation
Preventive
Soon
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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.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Friendship
Compassion
People
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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 / Former President Of France
Age
History
Democratic
Hands
International
Long
Terrorism
Life History Long
Rules
Ages
Allow
Basic
Corrupt
Democratic Societies
Destroy
Hand
Long Gone
Societies
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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 / Former President Of France
Country
Marginalized
Media
New Media
Young Generation
Creations
Economically
Programs
Strongly
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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 / Former President Of France
Defense
Missile Defense
Nuclear
Proliferation
Weapons
Direction
Missile
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The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Believe
Risk
Russia
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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 / Former President Of France
Circumstances
Condolences
Irresponsible
Justification
Names
People
Sincere
Acts
Appalling
Name
Condemned
French
French People
Offer
Whatsoever
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France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
People
September 11
Upset
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Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Hurt
Passion
Religious
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For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Acting
Humanity
Kyoto Protocol
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France 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. Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Blood
Brotherhood
Two
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King Fahd was also committed to the strong and trusting relations between France and Saudi Arabia. This old friendship, which began with an exceptional link established by General De Gaulle, took on a new dimension under his reign, helped by a shared vision of what was at stake regionally and internationally.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Kings
Old Friends
Strong
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Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Eye
Fighting
Responsibility
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What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.
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Country
Past
Thinking
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Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Leadership
Country
Lying
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Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in the North as in the South, and we are indifferent. The Earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible. It is time now to open our eyes
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Eye
House
Humanity
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Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable with its hegenomism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' - came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them with their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists.
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Boys
Fire
Real
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The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Ambition
Determination
Generosity
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Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Business
Butterfly
Mistake
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As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I repeat that every possibility offered by the present resolution must be explored, that there are a lot of them and they still leave us with a lot of leeway when it comes to ways of achieving the objective of eliminating any weapons of mass destruction which may exist in Iraq. I'd like nevertheless to note that, as things stand at the moment, I have, to my knowledge, no indisputable proof in this sphere.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
Done
Iraq
Mass Destruction
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It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just struck the United States of America. In these horrifying circumstances, the entire people of France, and I want to emphasize this, stand by the people of America. They express their friendship and solidarity in this tragedy. Naturally, I want to assure President Bush of my total support. France, as you know, has always condemned and unreservedly condemns terrorism, and considers that terrorism must be combated by all possible means.
Jacques Chirac / Former President Of France
America
Mean
People
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