Stephen Harper

If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.

— Stephen Harper

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

— Stephen Harper

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

— Stephen Harper

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

— Stephen Harper

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

— Stephen Harper

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

— Stephen Harper

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

— Stephen Harper

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

— Stephen Harper

Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global…

— Stephen Harper

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly…

— Stephen Harper

It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be…

— Stephen Harper

I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved.…

— Stephen Harper

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma…

— Stephen Harper

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history…

— Stephen Harper

Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people…

— Stephen Harper

When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors…

— Stephen Harper

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial…

— Stephen Harper

Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States,…

— Stephen Harper

There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be…

— Stephen Harper

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our…

— Stephen Harper

Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the government's decision to renew our military mission against…

— Stephen Harper

Our government has been in a surplus position up until this year. We should be able to recover to a surplus position…

— Stephen Harper

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the…

— Stephen Harper

I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of…

— Stephen Harper

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if…

— Stephen Harper

The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world.

— Stephen Harper

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

— Stephen Harper

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

— Stephen Harper

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

— Stephen Harper

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

— Stephen Harper

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

— Stephen Harper

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

— Stephen Harper

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

— Stephen Harper

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it

— Stephen Harper

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

— Stephen Harper

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

— Stephen Harper

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

— Stephen Harper

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the…

— Stephen Harper

It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad…

— Stephen Harper

It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government…

— Stephen Harper