Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. 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 effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.

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

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

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.

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

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