6 ]* ^9 v+ w( A+ Y& H对萨科兹：「我做决定，他运行。」二○○四年七月谈及他与当时经济部长萨科兹的关系时回应。 8 t# j8 E3 Z" y! j! T+ h$ [5 g
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Chirac in quotes 3 x9 x7 P; B I3 `8 JMonday Mar 12 09:14 AEDT - q! Y% v. I3 v8 B1 b; ?. C0 x" `% c9 y; d* B0 {
From his passion for sumo wrestling to disdain for British table artsor diplomacy-defying comments on Iran's nuclear ambitions, here is a selectionof quotes from Jacques Chirac's political career:) I6 y- Z# P, O& o8 h, p( x* \
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SUMO WRESTLING: "Maybe if I'd started young, I could have been a sumowrestler. I was tall enough, and as for weight, well you can put that onwith time..." -- January 1998. 0 `9 h: l F5 M7 O! F1 U8 ]8 l$ t# x6 I/ q, B8 V- I$ a3 Y
THE BRITISH: "You can't trust people who have such lousy cooking. Theonly thing they have done for European agriculture is 'mad cow'" -- remarksattributed to Chirac in July 2005, made to the Russian and German leadersVladimir Putin and Gerhard Schroeder.$ `4 ~6 Z0 U0 ^! ^8 G
9 @/ l2 ]5 f3 y+ a. Y9 v THE ART OF DIPLOMACY: "What more does this housewife want from me? Myballs on a plate?" -- February 1988, caught on open microphone during tenseEuropean negotiations with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. ) e5 s7 Y% _6 e1 }8 {' P& z: R$ n( S* A* s. z0 ^( X) r9 Y) S. ?
KNOWING ONE'S PLACE: "When you're in the family, you have more rightsthan when you're knocking on the door.... These countries behaved in a wayboth ill-educated and reckless.... Apart from being childish, it was alsodangerous." -- February 2003, after five would-be European Union membersendorsed US plans to invade Iraq. W4 k5 a$ O3 K6 ?1 X % ~- \& I# M% E% i6 c; b# y1 e6 x THE BOMB: "Having one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, wellthat's not very dangerous. Where would Iran drop this bomb? On Israel? Itwould not have gone off 200 metres into the atmosphere before Tehran wouldbe razed to the ground." -- February 2007. The following day Chirac retractedthe comments, made in an interview with journalists from three publications. 8 F/ \4 }) m# i2 [' B u2 b* a' i# W M# R( }3 ]' n5 `1 t- b* ?! u( }- K
IRAQ: "War is always a last resort, always an admission of failure,always the worst of solutions, because it brings death and misery." -- March2003, televised address made 10 days before the US-led invasion. " W) O) _9 \9 ?1 o$ d9 \/ W& `7 ]8 g! I# n! K* w. J
IMMIGRATION: "Having Spaniards, Poles and Portuguese people workinghere creates fewer problems than having Muslims and blacks. A French worker...who sees next door a family with three or four wives and 20 kids, earning50,000 francs a month in social benefits without having to work -- add tothat the sound and the smell, and the French worker goes mad." -- June 1991,in a speech on immigration policy to his centre-right RPR party.2 ~! X' {$ j$ X
. c; s0 W! F! k7 q8 } IMMIGRATION: "I have always been allergic to the National Front. It'ssomething almost physical, I can't stand anything to do with racism and xenophobia."-- "The Stranger in the Elysee", book of interviews published in February2007. 8 l# k u" l! M: g9 ~3 D, k8 q& } ( Y0 b* \; N. W2 g" S) v: B+ w STAYING THE COURSE: "When I was elected... I was 32, and I joined thegovernment right away. Then I just stayed forever... Governments changed,I stayed along with the furniture" -- July 2006. " {+ l' S; R5 A* L % d# V: I7 c! S( m5 N ON WOMEN: "I was never averse to women. But I never overdid it either,"-- "The Stranger in the Elysee", book of interviews published in February2007, when asked about his life-long reputation as a womaniser., X4 `6 X1 A" m& B
5 O4 |3 x' W- R+ A) e SARKOZY: "I make the decisions and he carries them out" -- July 2004,when asked to define his relationship with his protege-turned-rival NicolasSarkozy, then economy minister.2 c; Q# z! \1 P* v/ C
: G9 E( V: _6 |4 z4 h POLITICAL ANIMAL: "Of course I'm a man of the left! I eat sauerkrautand I drink beer!" -- February 1995, on the presidential election trail. ! _) v @! k/ w ( A$ p# b+ }" [[ 本帖最后由 日月光 于 2007-3-12 14:57 编辑 ]
