Georges Pompidou Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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