I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.

It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life.

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

Sometimes there are no good choices for government.

I think I've chosen the right path.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

Finally, as I've said, this is - why are you talking about Jewish women's wigs and people wearing turbans? That has nothing whatsoever to do with niqab.

I think very few people in Canada are seeking - to regulate any public expressions of individuals' religions.

She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.

I would rather attempt to do something I want to do regardless of how impossible it may seem than do something I don't want to do regardless of how easy it is to achieve

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.