"Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth."

“History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.”

“We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set.”

“The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.”

“Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.”

“The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.”

“Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.”