Quotes by Brian Mulroney

About Brian Mulroney:

Martin Brian Mulroney was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984 to June 25, 1993, and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the Goods and Services Tax, and the rejection of constitutional reforms such as the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord. Prior to his political career, he was a prominent lawyer and businessman in Montreal.
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We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

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.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Brian Mulroney

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.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

I am not denying anything I did not say.

Brian Mulroney

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

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.

Brian Mulroney

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

Brian Mulroney

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.

Brian Mulroney

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

Brian Mulroney

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.

Brian Mulroney

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

Brian Mulroney

Author Bio

  • NameBrian Mulroney
  • Description18th Prime Minister of Canada
  • AliasesMartin Brian Mulroney
  • BornMarch 20, 1939
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer
  • AwardsCompanion Of The Order Of Canada