Political Quotes

“As I mentioned to you--maybe you missed that part of it where I said I didn't want to get into the internal affairs of Canada, courageously on the sidelines. But I will simply say that I'm not going to go any further than that, but I would put a lot of emphasis in what I said about how we value the relations with a unified Canada. I'm not going to buy into all kinds of hypotheses as what might happen. But we are very happy--put it this way--we are very, very happy with one unified Canada that has been friendly, been allies--staunch allies. And when you have the unknown, you've got to ask yourself questions. But I'm not going to go into that any further. The Prime Minister. Let me just answer the first part of the question. I've indicated to the President, as he knows, that Canada has gone through these constitutional difficulties in the past. We never minimize them because they're always serious. They're the product of our--we are the children of our environment. And families are and so are nations. But Canada's accomplished an extraordinary amount in 123 years. And I am satisfied that we will again over the next 123 years, although I'm not sure I'll be around. The final question. Soviet Union”