"Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada."

"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question."

"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."

"We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians."

"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."

"To question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me."

"The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free."