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.

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.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or 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've been called worse things by better people.