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"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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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."

"Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!"

"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."

"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."

"Mastery does not exist."

"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."

"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."

"The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop."
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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."

"For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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