I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.