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

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

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.

Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.

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.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.