In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

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.

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

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.

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

I am not denying anything I did not say.

The answers to all problems or issues is hidden in a question.

If ours souls are thirsty, we can draw freely, livng water from the well of salvation.

Some say we’re already damned, ” Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. “So you’re too late to send him to Hell.” -- BLOOD KNOT

When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.