"If you don't meet the right people you could go around like the Ancient Mariner, knocking on doors forever."

-Premier Mike Harcourt tells pottential Chinese investors in Beijing that the B.C. government supplies "the juice, the clout, the credibility" for business.

(quoted in May 1, 1993 Vancouver Sun, page B2)

"By the time I got to law school in the 1960s, my contrariness and my opposition to the Vietnam war earned me the nickname of 'Ho Chi Minh Harcourt'."

--from "A Measure Of Defiance",
Chapter 2: "No Ordinary Time, No Ordinary Man",
by Mike Harcourt and Wayne Skene,
copyright 1996 by Mike Harcourt and Wayne Skene.