Statesman Quotes

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
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.
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.
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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