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.
Georges PompidouThere 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.
Georges PompidouThere 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.
Georges PompidouThe rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.
Georges Pompidou