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.

Isolated and limited vision problem.

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.

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

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland.

The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

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

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

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.

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

Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It Great Britain is the country with the worst food after Finland.

Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in the North as in the South, and we are indifferent. The Earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible. It is time now to open our eyes.

King Fahd was also committed to the strong and trusting relations between France and Saudi Arabia. This old friendship, which began with an exceptional link established by General De Gaulle, took on a new dimension under his reign, helped by a shared vision of what was at stake regionally and internationally.

France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.

What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.