Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.

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

I've always lived in a democratic society.