I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

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.

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

There is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.