Brian Mulroney Quotes

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

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.

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 which it is all based.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

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 are none.

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 everything that happens in Washington.

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

I am not denying anything I did not say.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.

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 we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.