We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

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.

No bikinis on a first date.” He nods. “I’m sure that’s a rule. Or should be. For my sisters anyway.

Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

I am sick as a horse.

White is an attitude.

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.