I feel very deeply for Canada, and l believe most Canadians do.

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

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll have to explain what the political constraints were and why it didn't happen earlier.