“Vous n'avez pas, M. Mitterrand, le monopole du cœur. (You do not have, Mr Mitterrand, the monopoly of heart).”

—  Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

To presidential candidate François Mitterrand, during the 1974 French Presidential debate.

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