As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges

Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

I am personally against abortion on demand, but I believe it is very clear that there must be legislation brought in that will deal with what is becoming simply a mish-mash of approaches

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

You do not have to run with out a sigh, sometimes you gotta stay and have a break when you breath and admire the beauty of the journey.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.