D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

If Québec separates I will go with it, my loyalties are with Québec

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

I feel very deeply for Canada, and l believe most Canadians do.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

I believe in life after death.

The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

Long live free France.