There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings… — Jean Chretien

Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another.

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.

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.