Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

[Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.