Jean Drapeau

Jean Drapeau CC GOQ (February 18, 1916 – August 12, 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1986.

Quotes

 * The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.
 * Quoted in Why Chicago didn’t want the Olympics, by Edward McClelland


 * Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.
 * Quoted in House Beautiful, vol.133, p. 216


 * What the masses want are monuments.
 * Quoted in We need politically incorrect mayors by Victor Schukov, West Island Gazette, Saturday, December 3, 2011