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

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

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.

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

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

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.