Famous quotes by Statesmans

"Good order is the foundation of all things"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

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

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A., to Diefenbaker, and others"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you!"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"I am not denying anything I did not say"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

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

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

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