America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.