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

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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

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

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 democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Jacques Chirac

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

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

Jacques Chirac

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Jacques Chirac

If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

Jacques Chirac

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Jacques Chirac

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

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

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Jacques Chirac

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

Jacques Chirac

One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone.

Jacques Chirac

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Jacques Chirac

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Christopher Dodd

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Orison Swett Marden

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Pam Grier

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Samuel E. Morison

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

Murray Gell Mann

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Kate Millett

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

William Wilberforce

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Leon Trotsky

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Tom G. Palmer

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

Aslan Maskhadov

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

Isaac Rosenberg

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

William Kingdon Clifford

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

Joy Page

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

Breyten Breytenbach

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Richard Carlson

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

Ferdinand Christian Baur

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

Timothy White

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Bruce Sterling

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Thomas Aquinas

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Townsend Harris

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.

Hassan Nasrallah

Jacques Chirac

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

David Davis

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.

Anson Jones

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

David O. Selznick