# Quote — Jean Chretien, My Years as Prime Minister

> There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

- Author: [Jean Chretien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien.md)
- Book: [My Years as Prime Minister](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien/my-years-as-prime-minister.md)
- Page: 211
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien#My_Years_As_Prime_Minister_(2007)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien/my-years-as-prime-minister/theres-no-such

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> 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.

p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien/my-years-as-prime-minister/trudeau-valued-performance.md)

> 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.

p. 38 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien/my-years-as-prime-minister/i-didnt-feel.md)

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

p. 364 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien/my-years-as-prime-minister/there-is-nothing.md)