My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.