I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

I feel young every day.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.