The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

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.

To remember is to disengage from the present.

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.