Brian Mulroney Quotes
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The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.
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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.
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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.
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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, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.
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Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
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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 to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
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There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
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Fifty years from today, Americans will revere the name, 'Obama.' Because like his Canadian predecessors, he chose the tough responsibilities of national leadership over the meaningless nostrums of sterile partisanship that we see too much of in Canada and around the world.
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If everything is very important, then nothing is important.
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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.
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You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
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You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
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It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
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Peter Newman: Go fuck yourself. Thank you. Good night.
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And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
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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.
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Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
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It's pretty hard to tell somebody who won 211 seats the first time out, having started way behind, and then 169 the next time out, that he can't do it a third time against Jean Chrétien, Preston Manning and Audrey McLaughlin. Give me a break.
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Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
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I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
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I look around this room and see a room full of senators, maybe one or two judges. A Conservative government will give jobs to people in other parties only after I've been prime minister for fifteen years and can't find a single living, breathing Tory to appoint.
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I am not denying anything I did not say.
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And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
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We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.