"What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it."

"I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service."

"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."

"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."

"Exercise is labor without weariness."

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."