Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

We must re-learn to be alone.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.