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

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.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Cats like men are flatterers.