Quotes by Jean Chretien

Jean Chretien

A man can’t ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is my vocation. I’m forever grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this great country of ours. I know I am a better person for it.

Country

Grateful

Opportunity

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

Skills

Successful

Use

Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.

Class

Home

Paris

But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

Accepted

Grateful

Quality

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn’t a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

Democracy

Reform

Would Be

God gave me a physical defect, I’ve accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

Grateful

Kids

People

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

Excuse

Good Intentions

Intention

I didn’t feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

Men

Needs

Staff

I don’t know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand

Hands

Marijuana

Weed

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

Fighting

Guy

Years

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Aftermath

Arrogant

Careers

Choices

Citizens

Class

Country

Democracy

Dollars

Excuse

Exercise

Fighting

Frank

Gambling

Games

Golf

Good Intentions

Grateful

Guy

Hands

History

Home

House

Humble

Intention

Kids

Language

Law

Looks

Marijuana

Men

Morning

Moving

Needs

Opportunity

Paris

People

Play

Political

Quality

Reform

Responsibility

Rhetoric

Rich Or Poor

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Ruins

Self

Silence

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Quotes by Jean Chretien

Jean Chretien

A man can’t ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is my vocation. I’m forever grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this great country of ours. I know I am a better person for it.

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.

But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

God gave me a physical defect, I’ve accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

I didn’t feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

I don’t know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

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