I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.