One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

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

One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

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

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

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.