349 Quotes by Stephen Harper

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

It was probably not an appropriate term, but we support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win.

It's the same soap opera. We will continue to assume that Mr. Layton is still bargaining with the Liberal government,

Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta...

It sounds superficially appealing, but if you think about it for 30 seconds it's a ridiculous plan.

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

I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control.

That is how I want my time in public office to be. I'm here to do a job. I'm not here to join a club. I'm not here to buy into a lifestyle.

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