Stephen Harper on MPs pensions:

“My wife and I just purchased our first home and we are planning for our future, but I could not go home and look my wife or my constituents in the eye if I opted into a plan like the one offered in Bill C-85.”
-Stephen Harper, shortly after being elected as Reform MP from Calgary in the early 1990s.
According to the Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation, MP Harper is now in line for a yearly pension of $150,244.

Stephen Harper on Minority Government:

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
-Stephen Harper

It’s the government’s obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
-Stephen Harper

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
-Stephen Harper

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
-Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper on fixed election dates:

Fixed election dates prevent governments from calling snap elections for short-term political advantage,” Harper said. “They level the playing field for all parties and the rules are clear for everybody.
-Stephen Harper, May 26, 2006 | 10:24 PM ET, CBC News

Stephen Harper on Canada and Canadians:

Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.
-Stephen Harper

When I am through with Canada, you won’t recognize it.
-Stephen Harper

“You’ve got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.”

-Stephen Harper, The Report newsmagazine, January 22, 2001

“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.”
-Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.