The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges

Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

I am personally against abortion on demand, but I believe it is very clear that there must be legislation brought in that will deal with what is becoming simply a mish-mash of approaches

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

She felt something missing in her soul. It wasn't until she landed in Edinburgh that she realized that missing piece was the wild, mystical land.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

The world is too full of information.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.