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.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

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.

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

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

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