Jean Chretien
Jean Chretien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien PC OM CC QC, known commonly as Jean Chrétien, is a Canadian politician and statesman who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth11 January 1934
CityShawinigan, Canada
CountryCanada
government leader unions
A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.
yelling house television
Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
history looks evolution
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
golf games play
Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.
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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.
children home play
Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it
government people community
Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.
gambling las-vegas voting
Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.
fighting years guy
I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.
mind trying may
To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.
mother boys cities
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
men needs bigger
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.
grateful kids laughing
God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.
silence together generations
There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.