I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.

I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.

I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.

The last thing the Province needs is a minority government

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

With God life is an endless hope. Without God, life is a hopeless end.

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in.

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.