There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

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

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

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.

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.

Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher's personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors. She took time to be concerned - she knew all about my children and wife Mila and so on.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.