One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

- Jacques Chirac

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

- Jacques Chirac

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

- Jacques Chirac

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…

- Jacques Chirac

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

- Jacques Chirac

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…

- Jacques Chirac

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

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