Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

'Old Tomorrow.'

Music is my emotional tranquilizers

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.

The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show.

I think people in general think more about their insecurities.

I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.