Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.