Jacques Chirac Quotes

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.

How beautiful it would be if the Isthmus of Panama should come to be to us what the Isthmus of Corinth was to the Greeks! May God grant that some day we may have the happiness of installing there an august congress of the representatives of the republics, kingdoms and empires, to discuss and study the high interests of peace and war with nations of other three parts of the world!

Enduring peace will come about, not by countries continuing to threaten another, but only through an honest effort to create mutual trust.

Unification of the whole of mankind is the hall-mark of the stage which human society is now approaching. Unity of family, of tribe, of city-state, and nation have been successively attempted and fully established. World unity is the goal towards which a harassed humanity is striving. Nation-building has come to an end. The anarchy inherent in state sovereignty is moving towards a climax. A world, growing to maturity, must abandon this fetish, recognize the oneness and wholeness of human relationships, and establish once for all the machinery that can best incarnate this fundamental principle of its life. .

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

Security can no longer be attained by arming ourselves against a potential enemy. Rather, security is attainable only with his cooperation.

I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.

The U.N. was created for people.

A core group of the world's leading economies need to come together and hammer out an understanding.

This (environmental treaty) process has nothing to do with the weather. It has nothing to do with man's impact on the weather. It has everything to do with establishing the socialist international at the heart of the UN and making every nation bow the knee to this new dictatorship, and the climate is merely a fig leaf to cover what they are trying to do.

As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.