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"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion."
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"Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention."

"Stay focused, leave everything and do something."

"I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused."

"Don't live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don't have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly."

"Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters."

"The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end."
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"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question."


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


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


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


"We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians."


"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."


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


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


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


"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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