For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

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.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.

Some sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.