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.

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

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

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.

Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she never really got into that. What she talked about was giving freedom to tens of millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe. She was an inspirational leader when it came to discussing her belief in freedom. More visceral and moral.

I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.

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