I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

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.

My dreams couldn't defeat me!

I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.

Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi, they're pretty personality-less.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.