Stephen Harper Quotes

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Stephen Harper

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 30, 1959

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

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

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

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

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

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That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.

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The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

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The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

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

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There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

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This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

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Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

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We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

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We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

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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.

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Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

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We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

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The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

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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.

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We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

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