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 state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.