I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

I've been called worse things by better people.