That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.