Frases de Jean Chrétien

Fuente: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Two, The Virtuous Circle, p. 75
Contexto: 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.

Fuente: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Five, A Balancing Act, p. 118
Contexto: 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.

Fuente: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Three, The Business Of politics, p. 67
Contexto: 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
Live
Contexto: 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.

Fuente: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Four, The Politics Of Business, p. 91
Contexto: 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
Live

Fuente: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Five, A Balancing Act, p. 108

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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