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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. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

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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 #come #contribution #destroy #had

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

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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! ↗

— Brian Mulroney

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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

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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

#arctic #canada #coming #earlier #example

I am not denying anything I did not say. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

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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

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

— Brian Mulroney

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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. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

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