My country "will not at any price accept that a collection of states more or less totalitarian and professional at dictatorship, a collection of new states more or less responsible, more or less consistent, dictate its law to us. The United Nations is a derisory tribune for sensational speech-making, overbidding and the worst kind of threat-making." -- Charles De Gaulle
"There is no alternative to the United Nations" -- Jacques Chirac
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French." -- Charles De Gaulle
