Stephen Joseph Harper Quotes

• 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 Joseph Harper

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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.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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• We’re not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it’s certainly willingness to compromise but we’re not going back on the fundamental things we’re running on in this campaign.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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• 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 Joseph Harper

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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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• We have to remember we’re in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that’s why it’s so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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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.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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

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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.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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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.

   

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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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.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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• 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 Joseph Harper

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• Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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Stephen Joseph Harper (45)

Birth:	30th April, 1959
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Leader, Prime Minister

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