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.

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.

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

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

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.

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