Top 7 Quotes by Georges Pompidou

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.

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

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

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

Georges Pompidou

World, Clock, Expected

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

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