Daily Inspiration Quote by Brian Mulroney

There is a swagger in that opening “And look,” the kind of verbal lapel-grab Mulroney used when he wanted to turn politics into something closer to direct address. “Big, brassy” isn’t just autobiography; it’s self-mythmaking, a choice to frame his career as temperament before policy. He’s telling you the secret wasn’t a spreadsheet of ideas, it was audacity - volume, confidence, momentum. The line is half confession, half defence brief.

“I won and won big” does two things at once. It courts the legitimacy that only electoral math can confer, and it quietly preempts the moral ledger. Winning becomes the alibi: if the public handed you power decisively, the argument goes, then the rough edges were part of the bargain. For Mulroney, that’s loaded context. His tenure is remembered through consequential, polarizing acts - free trade, GST, constitutional gambles, a deliberate repositioning of Canada’s economic and diplomatic posture. In each case, he acted like a leader who believed scale was its own justification.

“I did what I wanted” lands differently coming from a statesman than from a celebrity. It’s not mere independence; it’s a claim about authority: that governing is, at the top, personal will converted into national direction. The subtext is the critique he’s inviting and resisting: was this principled leadership or ego with a mandate? The brashness reads as both pride and vulnerability - the late-life insistence that, whatever the blowback, he was never merely managed by events.