Jacques Chirac/mayor of Paris 1977%e2%80%931995

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    I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.
    Jacques Chirac (b. 1932)

    If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
    Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)

    Let us be realistic and demand the impossible.
    [Soyons rĂ©alistes, demandons l’impossible.]
    —Graffito. Paris ‘68, ch. 2, Marc Rohan (1988)