If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.