Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.