In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

I always wanted to be fashionable.

I feel like I'm in the right profession.

Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.