Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

'Old Tomorrow.'

Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

A good leader is not elected, he is appointed.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet