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"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."
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"For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!"
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"Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."
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"Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us."
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"To save and maintain the beauty of nature, there will be a few people worth to be left alive."
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"Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme."
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"Clean communities, crystal clear coastal waters."
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"Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen."
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"Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature."
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"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
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"The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment."
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"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
Government
"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."
Vision
"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."
Mind
"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."
Nothing
"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."
Nothing
"There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government."
Government
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
Leadership
"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!"
Leadership
"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
Leadership
"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
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