The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history - and on the south by friends'.* We hope that will always be the case and we hope it will be the case not only with respect to the United States, your immediate neighbor to the south, but with respect to all your southern neighbors - and ours - who are bound by the great forces of geography and history which are distinctive to the New World.

This is a great day for France!

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.