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

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.

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.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

There is no one as intolerant as an open minded liberal.

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.