You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved, ” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated, ” then you sound like half a man.

A fence should be horse high hog tight and bull strong.

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.