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- Brian Mulroney - "Are we making proper use of taxpayers' money by giving a bank president, say, at $500,000 or $600,000 a year, a baby bonus?… I don't know the answer." - quoted in Columbo's New Canadian Quotations by John Robert Columbo
- Brian Mulroney - "How did you like my courageous silence on abortion?" - after a TV debate on women's issues, August 15, 1984, quoted by Michael Gratton, So, What Are The Boys Saying?, 54
- Brian Mulroney - "I am not ideologically opposed to anything unless it doesn't work." - interview with CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge, 1992
- Brian Mulroney - "I know, the Queen Mother was telling me that just the other day." - former Canadian prime minister, responding to a friend's advice that he curb his name-dropping
- Brian Mulroney - "Okay, we’ve won. What do we do now?" - quoted by Michael Gratton in his book So, What Are The Boys Saying?, page 55
- Brian Mulroney - "Peter Newman: Go ____ yourself. Thank you. Good night." - by video to the 2005 Press Club dinner
- Brian Mulroney - "Popularity's bad for you. I avoid it like the plague."
- Brian Mulroney - "The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it’s right here.
- Brian Mulroney - "There's no whore like an old whore. If I'd been in Bryce's place, I would have been the first with my nose in the trough, just like all the rest of them." - on the patronage appointment of one-time Liberal cabinet minister Bryce Mackasey by short-lived Liberal prime minister John Turner - July 15, 1984 - quoted by Michael Gratton in his book So, What Are The Boys Saying?, page 26
- Brian Mulroney - "Throughout our history, trade has been critical to Canada's livelihood. Now, almost one third of what we produce is exported. Few countries in the world are so dependent on trade. This trend ultimately threatens the jobs of many Canadians and the living standards of the nation as a whole. We must confront this threat. We must reverse this trend." - 1985
- Brian Mulroney - "You had an option, sir." - to John Turner, during the leaderhsip debate, on his last-mminute appointment of Senators
