Peter Mackay Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Peter MacKay

#3. We wanted technology to go away and for us to experience what it gives us, in a direct link, without any interface

K. K. Barrett

#4. You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

Peter MacKay

#5. Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Catherine Deneuve

#6. 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

#7. What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

John Calipari

#8. I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

Peter MacKay

#9. We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Peter MacKay

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

Peter MacKay

#13. 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

#14. When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

Paul Weller

#15. 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

#16. My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

Peter MacKay

#17. Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

Rachel Dolezal

#18. The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Let's stop trying to conjure up God (by which, let's be honest, we're often just trying to conjure up our emotions), and let us marvel and enjoy that he cannot be conjured.

Jared C. Wilson

#20. There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

Peter MacKay

#21. Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

Peter MacKay

#22. I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

Kenneth Lonergan

#23. Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me..." "As you do us..." interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are,

Louisa May Alcott

#24. We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Tracy Chapman

#25. I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

Peter MacKay

#26. 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

#27. I'm a workaholic.

Peter MacKay

#28. 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

#29. My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

Ryan McGinley

#30. (I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

Nick Bantock

#31. I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

Sarah Zettel