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I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control.

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Stephen Harper
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 30
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The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
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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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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.
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It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
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For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.
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Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.
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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.
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We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
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Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
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I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.
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Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.
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It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.
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As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.
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