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

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.

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.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Im not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. Thats that.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.