These phonies love to trot out their mothers as convenient political tools.
John Kerry claimed his mother (on her deathbed) told him “integrity, integrity, integrity”. Probably got him lots of votes from the old Irish grannies who fell for the pretense that his ancestors also hailed from the Emerald Isle.
Jacques didn't tell the whole story:
He asked his mother on her deathbed, "what quality do I lack the most?"