I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as having been there and made a fuss. This doesn't mean I don't believe in participatory democracy.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

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

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

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.

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.