And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
- Brian Mulroney Quote

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

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.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

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

I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

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.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

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.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

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

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

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

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

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
- Brian Mulroney Quote

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
- Brian Mulroney Quote