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.

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.

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.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

There's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Nigeria.

At the time of destruction and despair hope for the better.

Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.