What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

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

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

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

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.

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.