A biography for Brian Mulroneyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am not denying anything I did not say.”
“There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.”