Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“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.”
Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter One, At Laurier's Desk, p. 38
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