Daily Inspiration Quote by Brian Mulroney

Politics punishes the clever generalist and rewards the legible narrator. Mulroney's "You can't be chasing 15 rabbits" is a folksy warning against the seduction of omnivorous ambition: the leader who tries to fix everything at once looks busy, not serious. The metaphor does two jobs at once. It flatters the speaker as someone practical enough to resist policy clutter, and it gently scolds colleagues who mistake motion for direction.

The second sentence sharpens the knife. "Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you" isn't just about attention spans; it's about coalition management in a mass democracy. Voters, media, caucus members, donors, foreign partners - each is a different audience, but they share a demand for coherence. If your story fractures into 15 separate pursuits, opponents get to define the connecting thread for you, usually as chaos or hypocrisy. Mulroney is naming a core political technology: agenda-setting is narrative control.

In context, this fits a statesman who governed in an era of big-ticket files that could easily swallow a mandate - free trade, constitutional reform, national unity, U.S. relations. The line reads like hard-earned counsel from someone who watched governments get consumed by their own to-do lists. The subtext is almost managerial: pick the rabbits you can actually catch, and pick the one the country can see you chasing. In politics, clarity isn't a nicety; it's the operating system.