Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up …

- Georges Pompidou

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

- Georges Pompidou

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

- Georges Pompidou

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is wit…

- Georges Pompidou

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but t…

- Georges Pompidou

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

- Georges Pompidou

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

- Georges Pompidou