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“I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Thinking #Numbers #People
“I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Thinking #Discipline #Needs
“There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison,”
-- Stephen Harper

#Law #Abuse #Prison
“I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Thinking #Government #Trying
“It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Responsibility #Government #Office
“The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Mean #Government #Media
“But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Believe #Government #People
“It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. You really have to do that as well.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Coffee #Doors #Media
“You have to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada; people who live in ghettos and are not integrated into Western Canadian society.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Ghetto #People #Riding
“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.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Government #Two #Canada
“America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world,”
-- Stephen Harper

#Country #Inspiration #America
“I believe that all taxes are bad.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Believe #I Believe #Taxes
“As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Unity #Cost #Bilingualism
“It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Past #Canada #Feds
“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Rights #Scary #Fundamentals
“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”
-- Stephen Harper

#People #Long #Unemployment
“I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Thinking #Firsts #Economy
“I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Support #Definitions #Clear
“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

#Dog #Cat #Thinking
“Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status ...”
-- Stephen Harper

#Country #Canada #Mask
“Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it”
-- Stephen Harper

#Proud #Canada #Welfare
“Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Wall #Bangs #Next
“Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Strong #Thinking #Government
“My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Views #Issues #Abortion
“We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Country #Responsibility #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...”
-- Stephen Harper

#Responsibility #Fighting #Income
“I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Country #May #Speak
“The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Military #Exercise #Order
“I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Party #Fighting #Thinking
“I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.”
-- Stephen Harper

#Thinking #Iraq #Facts

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