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"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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