Charles Tupper Quotes

We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

As lawmakers, we swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the most powerful people in the nation have managed to do the same thing my remote does.

[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.