Brian Mulroney quotes

Brian Mulroney is a Canadian statesman who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Canada. His leadership was marked by major economic reforms and the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He is also recognized for his strong stance against apartheid and efforts to improve Canada’s environmental policies. Here are 34 of his quotes:

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

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.

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

Brian Mulroney

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Brian Mulroney

I look around this room and see a room full of senators, maybe one or two judges. A Conservative government will give jobs to people in other parties only after I've been prime minister for fifteen years and can't find a single living, breathing Tory to appoint.

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It's pretty hard to tell somebody who won 211 seats the first time out, having started way behind, and then 169 the next time out, that he can't do it a third time against Jean Chrétien, Preston Manning and Audrey McLaughlin. Give me a break.

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.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

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

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I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

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You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country. (Brian Mulroney)

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.

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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.

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I am not denying anything I did not say.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

Brian Mulroney

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

Brian Mulroney

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

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

Brian Mulroney

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)

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

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

Brian Mulroney

Go bang the window and see what happens -- just test it. See that? Trudeau had the office bulletproofed. I always contended that the reason he did it was because the American embassy is right outside. They probably wanted to shoot him.

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Peter Newman: Go fuck yourself. Thank you. Good night.

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Brian Mulroney

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Occupation: Canadian Statesman
Born: March 20, 1939
Died: February 29, 2024
Quotes count: 34
Wikipedia: Brian Mulroney

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