I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything..

The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting p….

When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the….

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and w….

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it..

A man can't ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is my vocation. I'm forever grateful for the….

The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the….

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs,….

There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by….

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister..

God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gav….

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven..

I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other h….

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fa….

The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, w….

Politics is a game of friends..

It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's a….

Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a roun….

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science e….

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously..

But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful..