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

Brian Mulroney

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Brian Mulroney
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: March 20
Former Prime Minister Of Canada
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Martin Brian Mulroney
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First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
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Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
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This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.
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Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
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Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
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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.
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I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
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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.
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You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
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My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.
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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.
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And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
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At summits Margaret Tatcher was the only woman. Always perfectly coiffed, splendidly dressed - beautiful maroon or dark blue suits. That lovely diamond brooch. She would never speak to an issue without having absolutely exhausted the research on the file. She spoke very confidently because of it.
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Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
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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.
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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.
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