I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

Even if it’s a really funny joke, don’t laugh if the devil’s the one telling it!

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.

I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.