Stephen Harper Quotes

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world.

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].