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.

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.

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

I am not denying anything I did not say.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.

I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.

Go, send, or disobey.

She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.

Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

A lot of times, just because people are different, they're judged. I try not to let that concern me. But sometimes it can be hurtful, because I do feel judged sometimes for being a little different.

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.