JOE CLARK

Policy designed to make the nation grow must build upon and must not frustrate the instinct of most Canadians to build a stake for themselves.

They voted against us for a reason. They didn’t like what we had become.

Ministers do not function well when they are unsure of their authority or of their standing with the Leader [ the Prime Minister]

Of course the national government has to be strong, particularly on economic questions. But it must also be sensitive to the damage that neat theories can wreck upon a diverse country.

I think we made a mistake in limiting so severely the size of exempt staff. If we want to control policy and run the departments, Ministers need more staff.

Anyone who can bring the Conservative Party together can bring the country together.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.

We cannot separate politics from economics.

Political freedom is rare enough in the world, but the kind of social and cultural freedom which is the hallmark of Canada is even less common.

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.

Anyone who can bring the Conservative Party together can bring the country together.

Political freedom is rare enough in the world, but the kind of social and cultural freedom which is the hallmark of Canada is even less common.

I think we made a mistake in limiting so severely the size of exempt staff. If we want to control policy and run the departments, Ministers need more staff.

I'm not the greatest. I'm the best available.

[Concerning] the promotion of women. The system was designed by men and I am told constantly that "we have no women who are ready yet " for promotion. I can break that through perseverance—but it is an example of the system frustrating our purposes rather than serving them.

Ministers do not function well when they are unsure of their authority or of their standing with the Leader [ the Prime Minister]

Of course the national government has to be strong, particularly on economic questions. But it must also be sensitive to the damage that neat theories can wreck upon a diverse country.

Once Canadians get to know me better, they'll learn to like me.

Policy designed to make the nation grow must build upon and must not frustrate the instinct of most Canadians to build a stake for themselves.

The goal of economic progress is the extension of human liberty, not ... the open-ended servicing of human greed.

The job of government must be to provide the rules and the climate that will let the system work.

They voted against us for a reason. They didn’t like what we had become.

We cannot separate politics from economics.

When you've got a guy who's in position to influence who gets what, the potential is always there for corruption.