Georges Pompidou Quotations

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.