Statesman Quotes

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
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!
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
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.
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.
I am not denying anything I did not say.
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.
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
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.
If everything is very important, then nothing is important.
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.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
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.
Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
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.
The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
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