Stephen Harper quote: "I've made no secret of our desire to rebuild the Canadian military to have the capacities of a sovereign nation. To make foreign policy decisions that are not only independent but are actually noticed by other powers around the world."

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of ou...
STEPHEN HARPER

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
STEPHEN HARPER

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If...
STEPHEN HARPER

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don...
STEPHEN HARPER

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there i...
STEPHEN HARPER

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the ba...
STEPHEN HARPER

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has e...
STEPHEN HARPER

You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people w...
STEPHEN HARPER

The prime minister told the House in response that he had 'met the families and had long discussions...
STEPHEN HARPER

To use that photo to imply that Mr. Duceppe and I share some sort of agenda other than obviously opp...
STEPHEN HARPER

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big expor...
STEPHEN HARPER

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to s...
STEPHEN HARPER

I always say, it doesn't matter how busy I am and how early in the morning it is. The one thing I ca...
STEPHEN HARPER

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based ...
STEPHEN HARPER

I actually think the (U.S.) ambassador's intervention was inappropriate... I don't think foreign amb...
STEPHEN HARPER

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recessio...
STEPHEN HARPER

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic ins...
STEPHEN HARPER

Another phony gun policy is not going to solve this problem.
STEPHEN HARPER

Mr. Martin is campaigning in Montreal, which was considered not too long ago the strongest set of Li...
STEPHEN HARPER

We need a cabinet minister from Montreal.
STEPHEN HARPER

I think that we should obviously have good relations whenever possible with our closest ally and our...
STEPHEN HARPER

I like the position we're in. I think we're ready for an election. I think we've got the members, th...
STEPHEN HARPER

I'll only make promises I know we can afford and we can keep.
STEPHEN HARPER

We know the history of Conservative parties in the past. They often win elections and then not just ...
STEPHEN HARPER

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it'...
STEPHEN HARPER

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.
STEPHEN HARPER

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
STEPHEN HARPER

On Jan. 23, you will finally be able to hold the Liberals accountable for stealing your money, accou...
STEPHEN HARPER

I've told my caucus repeatedly, if you make conservatism relevant to ordinary working people, you ma...
STEPHEN HARPER

You know, a soap opera - you watch it every day, and nothing changes,
STEPHEN HARPER

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about ...
STEPHEN HARPER

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruc...
STEPHEN HARPER

The United States defends its sovereignty, the Canadian government will defend our sovereignty. ... ...
STEPHEN HARPER

Sovereignty is something, you use it or you lose it.
STEPHEN HARPER

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack o-n our fundamental freedoms and the b...
STEPHEN HARPER

This party will not take its position based o-n public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based...
STEPHEN HARPER

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public po...
STEPHEN HARPER

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.
STEPHEN HARPER

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian cu...
STEPHEN HARPER

Canadians have seen nothing other than 100 days of inaction from the government, ... Rather than con...
STEPHEN HARPER

Canadians have seen nothing other than 100 days of inaction from the government,
STEPHEN HARPER

Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to ...
STEPHEN HARPER

You shouldn't need to be cajoled into staying.
STEPHEN HARPER

Why, when this prime minister claims that aboriginal issues are his top priority, does the Liberal p...
STEPHEN HARPER

All too often we hear stories of veterans who are ignored or disrespected by government. What a sham...
STEPHEN HARPER

Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead -- because our...
STEPHEN HARPER

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
STEPHEN HARPER

Canadians can disagree, but it takes a lot to get Canadians to intensely hate something or hate some...
STEPHEN HARPER

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, una...
STEPHEN HARPER

culture of waste and mismanagement.
STEPHEN HARPER

It really is up to Mr. Layton to decide how long he's prepared to support the Liberal Party and its ...
STEPHEN HARPER

Tonight friends, our great country has voted for change, and Canadians have asked our party to take ...
STEPHEN HARPER

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abo...
STEPHEN HARPER

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibili...
STEPHEN HARPER

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian cultur...
STEPHEN HARPER

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't a...
STEPHEN HARPER

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on eithe...
STEPHEN HARPER

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.
STEPHEN HARPER

One of the things that has made Canada a great country historically has been our traditionally low c...
STEPHEN HARPER

The nature of our constitution is that everyone is supposed to be able to do their own thing in thei...
STEPHEN HARPER

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

Well there are lots of things that could bring the government down, but my opposition can not bring ...
STEPHEN HARPER

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

We should live without fear in our cities.
STEPHEN HARPER

The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sover...
STEPHEN HARPER

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, an...
STEPHEN HARPER

It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to w...
STEPHEN HARPER

When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly lo...
STEPHEN HARPER

And I think the real problem that we're facing already is that the government doesn't accept that it...
STEPHEN HARPER

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
STEPHEN HARPER

How can we continue to prop up a government that is under criminal investigation?
STEPHEN HARPER

Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government.
STEPHEN HARPER

I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedl...
STEPHEN HARPER

Atlantic Canada's culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually ...
STEPHEN HARPER

Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability i...
STEPHEN HARPER

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on...
STEPHEN HARPER

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending...
STEPHEN HARPER

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the r...
STEPHEN HARPER

We know we've run a good campaign. We've run the campaign we wanted to run and got our message out.
STEPHEN HARPER

We're not going to try to force a vote unless we think we can win it.
STEPHEN HARPER

Canada has to be prepared to take a strong stand, ... But we also have to keep lines of communicatio...
STEPHEN HARPER

It's up to the prime minister first of all to get in contact with the president to get the ball roll...
STEPHEN HARPER

the Liberals have not supported Toronto.
STEPHEN HARPER

Our party will make those decisions in our own way and in our own time,
STEPHEN HARPER

If the special envoy were to conclude that this is not a direction in which the United States wishes...
STEPHEN HARPER

Do you ever use the transit system?
STEPHEN HARPER

Obviously we would expect the head of state to be a supporter of the state. I don't think there shou...
STEPHEN HARPER

This is causing considerable dislocation, ... There are a lot of people on fixed incomes. There are ...
STEPHEN HARPER

Unfortunately, times are changing, our cities are changing.
STEPHEN HARPER

I think the U.S. ambassador is way out of line,
STEPHEN HARPER

What really needs to happen is this culture of waste and mismanagement and corruption that the Liber...
STEPHEN HARPER

This prime minister should have known better,
STEPHEN HARPER

After 17 months in office the record of this government ? or I should say in many instances its lack...
STEPHEN HARPER

When Paul Martin comes after us, as he will - when he comes after me, as he's already planning - tak...
STEPHEN HARPER

In my judgment Canada will eventually join with the allied coalition if war o-n Iraq comes to pass.
STEPHEN HARPER

We all know that I would have preferred an election by now. We didn't have one,
STEPHEN HARPER

Poll numbers don't matter.
STEPHEN HARPER

I am confident about the next election. We have our candidates in place, we have our financing in pl...
STEPHEN HARPER

good and decent man.
STEPHEN HARPER

I'll believe it the day I see it.
STEPHEN HARPER

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal prima...
STEPHEN HARPER

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I be...
STEPHEN HARPER

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
STEPHEN HARPER

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing wea...
STEPHEN HARPER

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition a...
STEPHEN HARPER

We will have to put much higher emphasis in exploiting the growing demand of China, India and others...
STEPHEN HARPER

Each and every day I will assure you of one thing -- I will dedicate myself to making Canada more un...
STEPHEN HARPER

The United States defends its sovereignty, Canada will defend its sovereignty.
STEPHEN HARPER

Chinese-Canadians are making an extraordinary impact on the building of our country. They've also ma...
STEPHEN HARPER

For a nation to be truly democratic, that nation must renounce terrorism.
STEPHEN HARPER

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I d...
STEPHEN HARPER

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

In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we ...
STEPHEN HARPER

It's never enough to show the country what we are against. We will offer them a positive vision for ...
STEPHEN HARPER

Over the course of a decade, people's views evolve somewhat and situations change. I deal with the s...
STEPHEN HARPER

The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with i...
STEPHEN HARPER

The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town ...
STEPHEN HARPER

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined ...
STEPHEN HARPER

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very ...
STEPHEN HARPER

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the...
STEPHEN HARPER

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the ...
STEPHEN HARPER

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine whi...
STEPHEN HARPER

I'm painfully middle class.
VALERIE HARPER

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm ...
VALERIE HARPER

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage...
VALERIE HARPER

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you...
VALERIE HARPER

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
VALERIE HARPER

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
VALERIE HARPER

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
VALERIE HARPER

Life does not owe me a shred.
VALERIE HARPER

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER

I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'...
BRYCE HARPER

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik...
HARPER LEE

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to...
HILL HARPER

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...
HARPER LEE

I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the libra...
MOLLY HARPER

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt...
ROY HARPER

I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes...
SHANE HARPER

I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite...
MOLLY HARPER

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER

It's a privilege to have a concealed weapons permit. Having no oversight is scary. We especially wan...
ADRIA HARPER

By the time the public gets to see the records, it's already too late.
ADRIA HARPER

I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowi...
ADRIA HARPER

This kicks it off with a bang. The public was invited and now they are being told they can't attend,...
ADRIA HARPER

It's an issue of public importance that's pretty critical at this period.
ADRIA HARPER

It's unfortunate that public officials feel that the public is a hindrance is getting their work don...
ADRIA HARPER

To simply muzzle someone because they're being critical of what their public servants are doing is r...
ADRIA HARPER

Public records are critical for the public's oversight. It's all potentially relevant and useful inf...
ADRIA HARPER

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you c...
HARPER LEE

Now, 75 years [after

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)......
HARPER LEE

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions......
HARPER LEE

Dick called, but he just left dirty voice-mail messages. Let's just say if I'm ever in the market fo...
MOLLY HARPER

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."

Jen turned and punched hi...
HARPER LEE

Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
HARPER LEE

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...
HARPER LEE

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...
HARPER LEE

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...
HARPER LEE

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there...
HARPER LEE

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yo...
HARPER LEE

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
HARPER LEE

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think no...
HARPER LEE

Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, ...
RALPH HARPER

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is n...
HARPER LEE

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...
HARPER LEE

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gon...
HARPER LEE

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
HARPER LEE

It's not time to worry yet
HARPER LEE

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE

Things are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEE

Pass the damn ham, please.
HARPER LEE

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no m...
HARPER LEE

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our ...
HARPER LEE

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout
HARPER LEE

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
HARPER LEE

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, w...
HARPER LEE

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to wi...
HARPER LEE

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. C...
HARPER LEE

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor t...
HARPER LEE

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't yo...
HARPER LEE

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEE

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gar...
HARPER LEE

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEE

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll...
HARPER LEE

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
HARPER LEE

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEE

I've made no secret of our desire to rebuild the Canadian military to have the capacities of a sovereign nation. To make foreign policy decisions that are not only independent but are actually noticed by other powers around the world.

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Stephen Harper

I've made no secret of our desire to rebuild the Canadian military to have the capacities of a sovereign nation. To make foreign policy decisions that are not only independent but are actually noticed by other powers around the world.

Stephen Harper

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