I don't want to join the misquoted, so I'm standing by the quote, but it has to be put in context. The context is that I was having a conversation with a journalist; the same story was reported by two different journalists, and in both cases the quotations were the same but they were interpreted differently. What I was saying is that Mr. Mulroney was not a man who had inherited millions of dollars. He was not a wealthy man, like former prime ministers in the past, and I'm not saying this in a derogatory way. He was not a rich man. What I was saying is that when you leave office and you were an elected official--and I've known many others who went through this process--and you want to start a new career, you may be optimistic, but you're looking to get your first pieces of business. That's what I was saying.
On February 7th, 2008. See this statement in context.