I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

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.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.