I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.

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.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

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

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.