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Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Two, The Virtuous Circle, p. 75
Контексте: I never bought into the Laffer curve, a theory, named after an American supply-side economist who had been an adviser to the Reagan administration, that essentially argues that a government will increase its revenue by reducing its taxes. If it were that easy, everybody would do it. What politician doesn't want to reduce taxes in order to win votes? Taken to its logical extreme, the Laffer curve makes no sense because, if you lower your taxes to zero, how are you going to get higher revenues? In practice, every government that toyed with this theory ended up with larger deficits, higher interest rates and greater social inequality.

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Five, A Balancing Act, p. 118
Контексте: The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Three, The Business Of politics, p. 67
Контексте: 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

1993, at a campaign stop, in response to the infamous attack ad that appeared to mock him and suggest he was unfit for the job of Prime Minister due to his Bell's Palsy condition. Source video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PikszBkfTHM
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Контексте: But last night, the Conservative Party reached a new low; they tried to make fun of the way I look. God gave me a physical defect, and I've accepted that since I'm a kid. It's true, that I speak on one side of my mouth. I'm not a Tory, I don't speak on both sides of my mouth.

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Four, The Politics Of Business, p. 91
Контексте: I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

November 25, 1997, at a press conference, in response to a question from Nardwuar the Human Serviette about whether Chrétien supported police use of pepper spray on protestors. Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWf2LLaHkM0
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Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Five, A Balancing Act, p. 108

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Five, The Phony War, p. 115

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Nine, Main Street...Bay Street, p. 195

Preface, p. 10
Straight From The Heart (1985)

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Ten, Power behind the Throne, p. 238

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Eight, Tales from the Nineteenth Hole, p. 198

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Fourteen, Vive le Canada, p. 406

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter One, A Passion For Politics, p. 23

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Three, The Business Of politics, p. 76

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Three, Yankee Traders, p. 87

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Eleven, No the Retiring Type, p. 264

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Seven, Security Details, p. 183

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Four, The Politics Of Business, p. 92

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Nine, Main Street...Bay Street, p. 211

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter One, At Laurier's Desk, p. 29

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Thirteen, Friends and Allies, p. 364

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Twelve, No To War, p. 287

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter One, At Laurier's Desk, p. 28 ( See also: Aline Chretien)

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Three, The Business Of politics, p. 87

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Four, One Day at a Time, p. 106-107

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Nine, But Who Watches The Dog?, p. 211

Источник: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Eight, A New Constitution, p. 189

Источник: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter One, At Laurier's Desk, p. 16