Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.