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.

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.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

Adrenaline wants to kill you...

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.