I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson.

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.