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

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.

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.

I am not denying anything I did not say.

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can.

Discipline transforms the gifted to the great.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.