“I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will ...” — Tommy Douglas Quote

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.