Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

There are no such things as curses

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

The best thing about London is Paris.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.