I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

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.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.