The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.