I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

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.

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them Why can't he recall with equal skill All the times he told them!

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.