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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
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Jacques Chirac's Popular Quotes

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

- Jacques Chirac

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

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The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

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Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

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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 Sta…

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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. Humani…

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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.

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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

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

- Jacques Chirac
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