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

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

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

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

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

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.

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.