Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

Just because you dress sexy doesn't mean you're a bad girl; it just means you know how to dress.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.