Brian Mulroney
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"Martin Brian Mulroney", Privy Counsellor (Canada)/PC, Companion of the Order of Canada/CC, Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec/GOQ, was the List of Prime Ministers of Canada/18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984 to June 25, 1993, and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the Goods and Services Tax (Canada)/Goods and Services Tax, and the rejection of constitutional reforms such as the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord. Prior to his political career, he was a prominent lawyer and businessman in Montreal.

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Bob Coates went to a bar and had a drink with somebody who was less than the daughter of Isabella, ... The media took these isolated things and conveyed the impression that this was a corrupt, indecent group, without offering any perspective.

By our standards, this is normal here in Canada.

His record as a prime minister is absolutely mediocre.

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.

I was never in the hospital in Halifax in my life, ... He has no medical record, nothing, no evidence. I could prove that I was never in the hospital.

(Joe) Clark managed to win, but then he blew it so quickly and became an object of scorn and derision, ... But because he lost and was out of it, they liked him, too. If you were a Conservative leader who won, different story. And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

To say nothing of the times he taped me on the telephone without my knowledge.

In politics, Madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

I am not denying anything I did not say.