I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for 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.

Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

A person who is confident and capablewill never feel insecure.

What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

Never abandon imagination