If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

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.

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

I'd prefer her story than history.

A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Because I'm married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.