Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

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.

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.

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

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.

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level.