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I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.
There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!
I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.
Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.
Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.
When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.
At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.
I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.
I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.