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Populism is not a style, it is a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

First of all, I can not forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that is to provide an alternative government.

I do not believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

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

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I am not a criminal. The parole board knows I am not a criminal. The judge knows I am not a criminal.

It is the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it is the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

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 corporate subsidization programs.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

We'll support the government on issues if it is essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

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.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We are on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that is our - our government's objective.

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it Does not work for very long. It is an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we are building for Canada as a strong place to invest.