I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

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.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.

I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll have to explain what the political constraints were and why it didn't happen earlier.

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.