A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.