Brian Mulroney Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I am not denying anything I did not say.

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

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

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