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Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.

Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism,

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

I believe that all taxes are bad.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

Corruption is not a Canadian value!

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it

America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world,

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.