Brian Mulroney

"Peter Newman: Go frack yourself. Thank you. Good night."

"I look around this room and see a room full of senators, maybe one or two judges. A Conservative government will give jobs to people in other parties only after Ive been prime minister for fifteen years and cant find a single living, breathing Tory to appoint."

"Look, when I did the Free Trade Agreement, I didnt know how it was going to turn out. I thought it was the right thing to do. I believed it was the way of the future. If you looked at it in the new millenium, you would say this was so obvious that it had to be done. Without it, Canada would be small and atrophied. The Free Trade Agreement and NAFTA will be regarded one hundred years from now as a major defining moment in the evolution of Canada. The New York Times did a big article in the financial section on NAFTA and they basically said, the United States and Mexico might have a little trouble with this, but, boy, Canada sure doesnt. Canada has emerged the true winner on everything."

"Go bang the window and see what happens -- just test it. See that? Trudeau had the office bulletproofed. I always contended that the reason he did it was because the American embassy is right outside. They probably wanted to shoot him."

"Its pretty hard to tell somebody who won 211 seats the first time out, having started way behind, and then 169 the next time out, that he cant do it a third time against Jean Chrétien, Preston Manning and Audrey McLaughlin. Give me a break."

"Your book is going to be such a bestseller because its a colorful, astonishing story. Its absolutely unbelievable. The publishers dont have to worry about whether this thing is going to sell. The only question theyre going to have to wonder about is whether theyve got enough paper in the forest to print the fucking books. Thats all they have to worry about. Ill tell you this, if there aint a good book in this, theres not a good book in Canadian history. So there you go. I dont know about other books, but boy this ones going to sell. I mean the others, youve done okay, but Ill tell you, youre going to be able to retire for sure. If this thing holds, its going to be quite remarkable. Id be very surprised, Peter, if by the time its all over if there werent two books in this thing for you. Lets let the books go out first, and then do the television."