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"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."
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"A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom."
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"The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation."
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Personal Development
"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens."
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Personal Development
"As you read in The Art of Being, having a heart of service and generosity is a powerful state of being and a positive way to make a great first impression through valuing others. "Service Beyond Self" encourages you to take deliberate action steps to rise above self-interest and ask what you can do for others, not what they can do for you."
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Personal Development
"Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions."
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Personal Development
"Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent."
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Personal Development
"The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence."
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Personal Development
"The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down."
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Personal Development
"Establish your system of control to see that your team does there job."
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"It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top."
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"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."
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."
Achievement
"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."
Money
"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."
Mind
"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
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
Leadership
"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."
Conversation
"You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country."
Cause
"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."
Leadership
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