If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

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.

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.

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.

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

This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.