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

Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. 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 effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.

I've been called worse things by better people.

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

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.