349 Quotes by Stephen Harper

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

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

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

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

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

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

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.