Brian Mulroney Quotes

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

I'm busy all the time.

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

One of the problems of being a prime minister is that you can't do what people want all at once.

Any President who performs his duties diligently has no time for leisure.

The biggest difference between the private sector and public sector is in the private sector, there's a sense of urgency because you have customers and you have competitors. Whereas in government, one of your major objectives is to not make any really big mistakes.

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!

Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a famine, and you don’t like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. More than I even thought.

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.