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.

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

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

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.

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.