54 Quotes by Brian Mulroney

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.

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

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. My biggest mistake in life was pretending that I wasn’t trying to avoid paying taxes on that money.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.