Peter MacKay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.
-- Peter MacKay

#Law #Justice #Working Together
I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.
-- Peter MacKay

#Stupid #Lazy #Canada
Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.
-- Peter MacKay

#Style #Division
Cyberbullying is an issue that affects all of us and demands that Canadians work together to put an end to it. This national public awareness campaign is an important step in protecting our children online. Along with our governmentâ€™s introduction of Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, we are taking clear action to tackle cyberbullying.
-- Peter MacKay

#Children #Government #Issues
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.
-- Peter MacKay

#Mean #Home #Law
I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.
-- Peter MacKay

#Home #Wife #Finding Happiness
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.
-- Peter MacKay

#Ambition #Iran #Israel
There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.
-- Peter MacKay

#Country #World #Today
I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.
-- Peter MacKay

#Home #Guilty #Loved Ones
What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.
-- Peter MacKay

#Military #Government #People
We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
-- Peter MacKay

#Party #People #Growing
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
-- Peter MacKay

#Fighting #Iraq #Gone
I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.
-- Peter MacKay

#Party #Want #Mergers
We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.
-- Peter MacKay

#Country #Stress #Support
It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.
-- Peter MacKay

#Leadership #Party #Campaigns
My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.
-- Peter MacKay

#Party #Government #Conservative
I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].
-- Peter MacKay

#Thinking #Checklists #Mets

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