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"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
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"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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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