Quotes by Stephen Harper

About Stephen Harper:

Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada and the Leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became prime minister in 2006, forming a minority government after the 2006 election. He is the first prime minister to come from the newly reconstituted Conservative Party, which formed after a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance.
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But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

Stephen Harper

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

Stephen Harper

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

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If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

Stephen Harper

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

Stephen Harper

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 Harper

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

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I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

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I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

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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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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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Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

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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 a...

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Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

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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.

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Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

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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.

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I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

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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 corporat...

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Author Bio

  • NameStephen Harper
  • Description22nd Prime Minister of Canada
  • AliasesStephen Joseph Harper; The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; The Right Honourable Stephen Joseph Harper
  • BornApril 30, 1959
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionPolitician; Economist
  • AwardsWoodrow Wilson Award For Public Service; Canada India Foundation ("CIF") Chanchlani Global Indian Award