Brian Mulroney Quotes

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• In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
• Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there…
• Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
• And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
• I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on…
• For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now,…
• If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
• The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
• So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control…
• I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other…
• First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important…
• Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
• The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.
• Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
• You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
• There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
• I am not denying anything I did not say.
• You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
• I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
• We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and…

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