Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of jo...
JACQUES CHIRAC Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
JACQUES CHIRAC Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo...
JACQUES CHIRAC These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned....
JACQUES CHIRAC The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
JACQUES CHIRAC discrimination they suffer daily.
JACQUES CHIRAC For the future, of course, we should create a European food safety agency which is transparent, effi...
JACQUES CHIRAC The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.
JACQUES CHIRAC it is possible that in the future we will call upon those of goodwill to help us strengthen the peac...
JACQUES CHIRAC Germany and France have the same judgement on this crisis,
JACQUES CHIRAC France , like the European Union, will always be at the side of those who, in Israel and among the P...
JACQUES CHIRAC France proposes mobilizing the European Investment Bank to double the capacity of research,
JACQUES CHIRAC The United States will continue to have an approach of respecting nations that agree with us and res...
JACQUES CHIRAC gracious, friendly and charming.
JACQUES CHIRAC This mourning deeply marks France as well as every French person who identifies with the message of ...
JACQUES CHIRAC This dreadful catastrophe plunges all of France into mourning, ... all the consequences can be drawn...
JACQUES CHIRAC Our objective is simple: to give Europe back its dynamism, ... It has all the assets to be at front ...
JACQUES CHIRAC France is doing everything it can, but the problem is that it is impossible to stop Bush from pursui...
JACQUES CHIRAC If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young ge...
JACQUES CHIRAC [Local officials] will be able to impose curfews on the areas where this decision applies, ... It is...
JACQUES CHIRAC I have asked the services in charge of the investigation to diligently determine the exact circumsta...
JACQUES CHIRAC it's time take action in a massive way.
JACQUES CHIRAC Everything favors the situating of high-technology operations in France and Europe, ... I'm counting...
JACQUES CHIRAC Faced with this situation, we must act, ... What's urgent is to ensure the safety of people living i...
JACQUES CHIRAC There is room for dialogue and negotiation,
JACQUES CHIRAC The European offer is worthy of the role which this great country, which is Iran, should play in the...
JACQUES CHIRAC Commitments have been made and France will live up to them.
JACQUES CHIRAC Without waiting, I asked the government to start the procedures necessary to put such a levy in plac...
JACQUES CHIRAC Everything will be done ... with the Venezuelan authorities ... to shed light upon the reasons, circ...
JACQUES CHIRAC This dreadful disaster plunges all of France into mourning,
JACQUES CHIRAC The light of the writer and the dramatist who, by the power of the pen, armed solely with courage an...
JACQUES CHIRAC I'm looking for a good cowboy.
JACQUES CHIRAC People that are such bad cooks, can't be trusted.(About the English on the G8 2005)
JACQUES CHIRAC I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassi...
JACQUES CHIRAC I have come here to support one candidacy.
JACQUES CHIRAC France is mourning,
JACQUES CHIRAC one of the greatest contemporary humanist figures.
JACQUES CHIRAC I feel, I tell you from the outset, in very good shape, ... To hide nothing, I was starting to grow ...
JACQUES CHIRAC Once again, we have shown the French-German motor, which is so important for European integration, w...
JACQUES CHIRAC It is necessary to hasten a return to calm,
JACQUES CHIRAC I was profoundly shocked by the statements of the Iranian president, which are totally senseless and...
JACQUES CHIRAC The unanimous vote by the Security Council... offers Iraq a chance to disarm in peace. That was the ...
JACQUES CHIRAC These statements, presented as medical, are in fact texts devised by the patient, those close to him...
JACQUES CHIRAC I would like to remind all French men and French women to gather together to defend human rights, to...
JACQUES CHIRAC She leaves us a strong message which knows no borders and goes beyond faith -- mutual support, liste...
JACQUES CHIRAC We must stop the spiral of barbarity and take away from this regime the means to conduct such operat...
JACQUES CHIRAC To the families of the victims and those close to them, I express my most heartfelt condolences,
JACQUES CHIRAC I heard and I understood your call so that the Republic lives, so that the nation rallies together, ...
JACQUES CHIRAC ... As far as the Europeans are concerned, it is our continent which is involved here, and we want o...
JACQUES CHIRAC will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country...
JACQUES CHIRAC To help young people, especially young people in difficulty, to get employment I've decided to creat...
JACQUES CHIRAC Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons tha...
JACQUES CHIRAC National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear mis...
JACQUES CHIRAC The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision ...
JACQUES CHIRAC We should not bring into question one of 'the pillars of the temple,'
JACQUES CHIRAC Personally, I deplore the fact that Britain refused to pay a fair and reasonable share of the cost o...
JACQUES CHIRAC One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the in...
JACQUES CHIRAC I know that the French people will understand that we had to act, ... Before the unjustified and inc...
JACQUES CHIRAC affirmation that there can be no more splits in Europe.
JACQUES CHIRAC I want to tell President Bush, who is my friend, that we bring you the total solidarity of France an...
JACQUES CHIRAC I would like to express to the victims, their families, every compassion and solidarity, every estee...
JACQUES CHIRAC We can succeed in December if everyone shows their spirit of solidarity and responsibility,
JACQUES CHIRAC We have been totally unanimous in our reaction and have shown solidarity, the G8 and the states that...
JACQUES CHIRAC If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to aro...
JACQUES CHIRAC Europe is ready to strengthen its dialogue and cooperation in line with progress made in human right...
JACQUES CHIRAC France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
JACQUES CHIRAC The concerns that have been expressed are entirely legitimate. I do not understand what the fuss is ...
CHIRAC INDIA I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
JACQUES CARTIER I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would b...
JACQUES DERRIDA Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
JACQUES BARZUN Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is ...
JACQUES BARZUN An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...
JACQUES PREVERT When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we ha...
JACQUES PARIZEAU I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qua...
JACQUES MARITAIN Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
JACQUES PREVERT The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was ...
JACQUES DERRIDA Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as somethi...
MARTIN JACQUES There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had ...
MARTIN JACQUES We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q...
JACQUES MARITAIN Experience is the cane of the blind.
JACQUES ROUMAIN Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...
JACQUES DERRIDA To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
JACQUES DERRIDA Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot...
JACQUES MARITAIN I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable...
JACQUES MARITAIN When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
JACQUES MARITAIN Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You ma...
JACQUES DERRIDA Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
JACQUES MARITAIN For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to unde...
JACQUES ATTALI In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...
JACQUES BARZUN Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
JACQUES BARZUN Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over ot...
JACQUES TURGOT Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen an...
JACQUES ATTALI Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people bo...
JACQUES PLANTE Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...
JACQUES BARZUN Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
JACQUES BARZUN A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
JACQUES RIGAUT Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...
JACQUES BARZUN Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realit...
JACQUES BARZUN Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
JACQUES DEVAL What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
JEPH JACQUES Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already mode...
JACQUES DERRIDA Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
JACQUES BARZUN Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have be...
MARTIN JACQUES If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprisi...
MARTIN JACQUES Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an Amer...
MARTIN JACQUES Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my o...
JACQUES VERGES In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a...
JACQUES DERRIDA Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It...
MARTIN JACQUES I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
JACQUES DERRIDA It is good for society to have this introspection.
JACQUES VERGES Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social...
JACQUES ELLUL What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
JACQUES LACAN If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its ...
MARTIN JACQUES The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a ...
JACQUES DERRIDA For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family trad...
JACQUES PEPIN When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose...
JACQUES PEPIN When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no ...
JACQUES PEPIN I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during...
JACQUES PEPIN My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuba...
JACQUES PEPIN I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or raci...
JACQUES PEPIN I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothin...
JACQUES PEPIN I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'E...
JACQUES PEPIN You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream...
JACQUES PEPIN I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to...
JACQUES PEPIN Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons....
JACQUES PEPIN My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you ge...
JACQUES PEPIN If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
JACQUES PEPIN You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becom...
JACQUES PEPIN Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what ...
JACQUES PEPIN All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's ve...
JACQUES PEPIN Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have mome...
JACQUES PEPIN The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooki...
JACQUES PEPIN Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
JACQUES PEPIN I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a gr...
JACQUES PEPIN There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, i...
MARTIN JACQUES Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The i...
MARTIN JACQUES The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person ...
JACQUES DELORS Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, t...
MARTIN JACQUES I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with c...
JACQUES PEPIN Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
JACQUES MARITAIN I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
JACQUES ROUMAIN Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing...
JACQUES DERRIDA Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thing...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ marmfloxes
BRIAN JACQUES The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it
BRIAN JACQUES Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars,...
BRIAN JACQUES Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"

Alarm spread acr...
BRIAN JACQUES A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement ge...
BRIAN JACQUES Eulaliiiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRIAN JACQUES Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
BRIAN JACQUES Wot Wot
BRIAN JACQUES In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and ca...
MARTIN JACQUES Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are sti...
MARTIN JACQUES More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived ...
MARTIN JACQUES I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back t...
JACQUES DERRIDA There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are...
MARTIN JACQUES This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For ...
JACQUES PEPIN Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
JACQUES DERRIDA The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ...
JACQUES PEPIN If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com...
JACQUES DERRIDA Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, follow...
MARTIN JACQUES When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don&...
JACQUES PEPIN You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ...
JACQUES PEPIN Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centr...
MARTIN JACQUES But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener...
JACQUES LACAN Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
JACQUES AUDIARD The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion t...
MARTIN JACQUES Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the ev...
MARTIN JACQUES When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
JACQUES PEPIN It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, th...
MARTIN JACQUES All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have f...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES COUSTEAU And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereo...
JACQUES ELLUL The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the...
MARTIN JACQUES It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - vi...
MARTIN JACQUES The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w...
MARTIN JACQUES The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg...
JACQUES VERGES Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w...
JACQUES LACAN My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist...
JACQUES DELORS I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
BRIAN JACQUES