"You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping."

"One can always debate questions back and forth."

"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention."

"It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures."

"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."

"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."

"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."