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.

  Georges Pompidou

  Technology, Sisterhood, Gambling

  Sunday Telegraph 26 May 1968

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• 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 Pompidou

  Inspirational, Political, Politician

  In Observer 30 Dec. 1973

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

  Georges Pompidou

  World, Clock, Expected

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• 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.

  Georges Pompidou

  Men, Gambling, Listening

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• 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.

  Georges Pompidou

  Dream, Cities, Names

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

  Georges Pompidou

  Adults, Students, Dangerous

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

  Georges Pompidou

  Gambling, Three, Calling

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