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

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

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.

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.

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

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.