Brian Mulroney famous quotes

04-17-2025

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 #Prime Minister
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 #Political #President
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 #Done #Reform
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

#Relationship #Important #President
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
The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Years #Done #Deals
Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Agendas
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Country #Political #Causes
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Government #Demand #Prestige
I am not denying anything I did not say.
-- Brian Mulroney
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Thinking #Government #Priorities
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Japan #United States #Germany
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
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 #Priorities #Political
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 #Ottawa #Cabinets
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Kyoto #Global Warming #Process
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Two #Political #Enemy
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

#Names #Achievement #Done
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Cabinets #Prime #Ministers
And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Guy #Looks #Bigs
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
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Mind #Rabbits #Chasing

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