To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring