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We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
We don't need subsidized corporate welfare schemes that rely on endless bailouts from the taxpayer.
Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.
I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.
Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.
We're not going to allow the temporary foreign worker program to suppress wages for New Brunswickers.
I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.
My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength.
It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.
Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.
One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market.
Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.
The Conservative caucus votes far more freely and independently than any other caucus on Parliament Hill.
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries.
From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.
It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
Government cannot tax what Parliament does not approve, but Parliament cannot approve what it does not know.
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
I'm thankful, thankful for the local farm family that gave me the idea for the Children's Fitness Tax Credit.
I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance.
I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it.
Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone.
I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better - for my kids and for yours.
It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.
If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.
Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.
Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.
Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.
Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.
In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.
The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.
Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.
A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.