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"My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."
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"If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies."

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."

"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else."

"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."

"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."

"We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out."
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"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."


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"We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters."


"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."


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"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."
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