What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

I've been called worse things by better people.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

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

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.

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.