Stockwell Day Quotes

Canada, Politician
August 16, 1950

Stockwell Burt Day Jr., PC is a Canadian former politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, who later served as leader of the Canadian Alliance from 2000-01. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of the Treasury Board. He was widely seen as a prominent voice for social conservatives within the Conservative Party. On March 12, 2011, Day announced that he would not be seeking re-election in the 2011 federal election.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day
- Respect
- Choices
- Opinions
Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

Stockwell Day

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

Stockwell Day
Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

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- History
- Wrong
- Liberals
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

Stockwell Day
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

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- Freedom
- Speech
- Comment
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Stockwell Day
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.

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- Changes
- System
- Careful

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Stockwell Day
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

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- Change
- Story
- Nation