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Stephen Harper
71 quotes
“Canada is a vast and empty country.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2006 Leaders' Debate, December 15, 2005.
“Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Faith Today, January 11, 2006, "Faith and Politics: Party Leaders Respond".
“Gar nar dai doe heem.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address 22 June 2006 by the Prime Minister on the Chinese Head Tax Redress]. (加拿大道歉, Canada apologizes.)
“I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Kevin Newman, Global National April 5th, 2006.
“Now I know it’s unfashionable to refer to colonialism in anything other than negative terms. And certainly, no part of the world is unscarred by the excesses of empires. But in the Canadian context, the actions of the British Empire were largely benign and occasionally brilliant...This genius for governance shown by the mother country at the time no doubt explains in part why Canada’s path to independence was so long, patient and peaceful.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 1247 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce July 14, 2006 http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=2&id=1247 : On Canada
“When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 39th Canadian General Election 2006 - On October 31, 2006, barely ten months into the Conservative run minority Government of Canada, Canadian (Conservative) federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a new 34% tax…
“Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Star, January 30, 2007.
“The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history… Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apology to Residential School victims, Parliament, June, 2008.: On Canada
“In exercising our sovereignty over these waters, we are not only fulfilling our duty to the people who called this northern frontier home, and to the generations that will follow; we are also being faithful to all who came before us, who through great hardship and sacrifice made a quest for knowledge of the North.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Announcement of the John G. Diefenbaker icebreaker project, August 28, 2008.
“It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Gilles Duceppe during the 2008 English leaders' debate, October 2, 2008: On the Iraq war.
“Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself,”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 15th, 2009.
“We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At Press Conference at Pittsburgh, September 2009.
“We're very concerned about CRTC's decision on usage-based billing and its impact on consumers. I've asked for a review of the decision./Nous sommes très préoccupés par la décision du CRTC sur la facturation selon l'usage. J'ai demandé qu'on examine cette décision. (From post made on http://www.facebook.com/#!/pmharper on 02/01/2011).”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, “They’re not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 1383 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CPAC, February 11, 2011, http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&template_id=1383&hl=e.
“I think I have been perfectly clear in saying that I hope Canadians do elect a majority government. I think this cycle of election after election, minority after minority is beginning to put some of the country's interests in serious jeopardy.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2011 English Language Leaders' Debate, April 12, 2011, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20110413/main-election-110413/20110413?s_name=election2011.
“When people think of Islamic terrorism, they think of Afghanistan, or maybe they think of some place in the Middle East, but the truth is that threat exists all over the world ... There are a number of threats on a number of levels, but if you are talking about terrorism it is Islamicism ... There are other threats out there, but that is the one that I can tell you occupies the security apparatus most regularly in terms of actual terrorist threats ... homegrown [Islamic] terrorism is something we keep an eye on.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: S. Harper: ‘Islamicism’ Canada’s Biggest Threat: PM - OnIslam, September 7, 2011Harper says 'Islamicism' biggest threat to Canada - CBC News, September 6, 2011
“Out security agencies work with each other and with others around the globe to track people who are threats to Canada and to watch threats that may evolve. I think though, this is not a time to commit sociology, if I can use an expression. It’s time to treat this- these things are serious threats. Global terrorist attacks, people who have agendas of violence—deep and abiding threats to all the values that our society stands for.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to an alleged plot to attack a VIA Rail passenger train, Toronto Star, April 25, 2013, http://www.thestar.com/news/2013/04/25/stephen_harper_terror_threats_are_no_time_for_apos_sociology_apos_.html
“a light of freedom and democracy in what is otherwise a region of darkness will always have Canada as a friend”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: describing Israel in December 2013 ("last month") according to 18 January 2014 article from Times of Israel
“Israel is the Middle East’s only legitimate democracy, surrounded by cadres, warlords and villains that do not respect democracy or human rights. These bellicose nations jealously regard Israel, envying its success, stability, and might. Israel faces an impossible calculus between defending itself and facing angry outcries or risking its own destruction.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stephen Harper, as quoted in "We Must Support Democracy in the Middle East" (31 January 2014), The Barrie Examiner.
“we do not offer them a better health-care plan than the ordinary Canadian can receive. I think that’s something that new and old stock Canadians can agree with”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 17 September 2015 according to 18 September 2015 article by Peter Edwards mentioning "the phrase “old stock Canadians” used by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Thursday’s leadership debate.
“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 public opinion… In my judgment Canada will eventually join with the allied coalition if war on Iraq comes to pass. The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hansard, January 29, 2003: On the Iraq war.