It's pretty hard to tell somebody who won 211 seats the first time out, having started way behind, and then 169 the next time out, that he can't do it a third time against Jean Chrétien, Preston Manning and Audrey McLaughlin. Give me a break.
Newman, Peter (2005). The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister. Toronto: Random House Canada. ISBN 0-679-31351-6., p. 159.