Brian Mulroney quotes

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you. (Brian Mulroney)
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. View quote
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Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it. View quote
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You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. View quote
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Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. View quote
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I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities. View quote
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You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country. (Brian Mulroney)
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 areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am not denying anything I did not say. View quote
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And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted. View quote
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The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here. View quote
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The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others. View quote
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There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister. View quote
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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. (Brian Mulroney)
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. View quote
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If everything is very important, then nothing is important. View quote
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Go bang the window and see what happens -- just test it. See that? Trudeau had the office bulletproofed. I always contended that the reason he did it was because the American embassy is right outside. They probably wanted to shoot him. View quote
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Peter Newman: Go fuck yourself. Thank you. Good night. View quote
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