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

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

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

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.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.