In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

The major cause of problems are solutions

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve.

Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!