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Brian Mulroney Quotes

Canadian - Statesman | March 20, 1939 -

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.

Moving Forward Environment Tax Done

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

Canada Build Contribution Destroy

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.

Control Political Problem Washington

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

You Follow Agenda Once Articulate

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.

Responsibility Regret Conversation

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

Politics Friends You Enemy Need Two

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

Partner Right United West Here

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.

Government Environmental Think Year

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

Mind You Follow Rabbits Chasing

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!

Leader Strong Socks Important Become

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

Process Urgency Global Warming Global

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.

You Nothing Will Prime Going Your

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