Stephen Harper Quotes

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...

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 st...

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

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.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

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

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.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

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 e...

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

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

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.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine y...

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

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...

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

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

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.