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.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.