I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your belt and a `panic' is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk
it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. [June
29, 1983]