Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.