Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.