Brian Mulroney Quotes

• 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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Prime, Ministers, Objectives

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Inspiration, Two, Political

  1990 Remark made to a journalist following the by-election victory of Liberal leader Jean Chre tien,10 Dec, quoted two days later by Graham Fraser in The Globe and Mail.

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Dream, Country, Towns

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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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Canada, Contribution, Save Nature

  "Life of Brian" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2005.

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• 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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Significant Things, Names, Achievement

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Mind, Rabbits, Chasing

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Country, Political, Causes

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.

  Brian Mulroney

  Mistake, Trying, Paying Taxes

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• Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she never really got into that. What she talked about was giving freedom to tens of millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe. She was an inspirational leader when it came to discussing her belief in freedom. More visceral and moral.

  Brian Mulroney

  People, Giving, Leader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Moving, Reform, Cost

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• Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher's personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors. She took time to be concerned - she knew all about my children and wife Mila and so on.

  Brian Mulroney

  Children, Thoughtful, Wife

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Years, Example, Canada

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• I am not denying anything I did not say.

  Brian Mulroney

  Explanation

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Guy, Looks, Bigs

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Kyoto, Global Warming, Process

  Brian Mulroney (2011). “Memoirs”, p.1308, Emblem Editions

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Japan, West Germany, United States

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• At summits Margaret Tatcher was the only woman. Always perfectly coiffed, splendidly dressed - beautiful maroon or dark blue suits. That lovely diamond brooch. She would never speak to an issue without having absolutely exhausted the research on the file. She spoke very confidently because of it.

  Brian Mulroney

  Beautiful, Dark, Lovely

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Years, Done, Deals

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• 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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Priorities, Cabinets, Ottawa

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Government, Demand, Prestige

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• Margaret Thatcher inherited the sick man of Europe in 1979 and transformed it into a powerhouse. When she left office, it was Britain redefined. And of course the frosting on the cake was her action in the Falklands, where she gave Britain back some of its pizzazz, addressed some past yearning and great memories. So she gave them back their pride. That was the first great thing she did.

  Brian Mulroney

  Memories, Pride, Past

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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.

  Brian Mulroney

  California, Everything Happens For A Reason, Political

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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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Vision, Canada, Environment

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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.

  Brian Mulroney

  Government, Political, Priorities

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