Famous quotes containing the words jacques chirac, prime and/or minister:
“I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.”
—Jacques Chirac (b. 1932)
“I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister at the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)