Quotes

Just watch me.

In 1980, on the deluge of Canadian movies made under his government's lax film production tax shelter laws: "It's amazing what a few tax shelter laws can do. There are now many Canadian films. But there aren't too many good ones, are there?"

The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.

[on temporarily stepping down as Prime Minister, 1979] With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it's still a beautiful world.

[ on learning that President Nixon had referred to him as an "asshole"] I've been called worse things by better people.