Chirac seems completely out of the loop. It's all very strange. As a doctor, I can't say whether he's in bad physical shape. But as a citizen, I can say he looks weaker and weaker.
Quotes about chirac (16 Quotes)
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
All of us from President Chirac to the president of China expressed sympathy to Tony Blair and Britain. There is a strong consensus on the need to defend our values.
Since last Friday, we've known that Chirac will not run for another mandate. It seemed absurd that he should do so anyway, but now the age factor has been multiplied by the health factor, and that makes it totally impossible, and that's why the fight has erupted between his successors.
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
French President Jacques Chirac said the bombings left him stunned and saddened, ... perpetrators of this cowardly attack.
People like Jacques Chirac and the Germans, Schroeder, really have no argument. They pushed the U. S. into the war against Milosevic to remove him.
About 400-500 children will walk to the French embassy to give a memorandum to President Chirac asking him to revoke the ban.
Schroeder, a longtime friend of Chirac, said news of the hospitalization worried me greatly. ... I very much hope that you can soon fully resume the business of government and we can hold our planned meeting as soon as possible.
The visit of (Chirac) is very important because it accelerates business discussions.
This is not a suggestion of immunity request filed on behalf of the prime minister of Canada or the guy down in Venezuela or Tony Blair or even Jacques Chirac because there, there are no First Amendment church-state considerations,
President Jacques Chirac, who returned home Thursday from a memorial service Wednesday in Martinique for the 160 victims, most of them French, of a crash in Venezuela on Aug. 16, said the string of accidents called for tighter rules in France and the European Union. In the context of the rapid development of airline transport and competition, ... I want to reinforce our legislation regarding controls, information and transparency.
It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.
President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to the U.S. doesn't get you much in return,
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
The G-8 summit is about personal chemistry, and there are two big problems. The president thinks (German) Chancellor (Gerhard) Schroeder lied to him, and the president thinks that Jacques Chirac screwed him.