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"There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"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
"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
Leadership
"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
Climate
"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
"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
"Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister."
Leadership
"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here."
Leadership
"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
"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."
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