I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

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.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.