Statesman Quotes

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

My government will respect the will of the people.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.