I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.

Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.

When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth.