We'll support the government on issues if it's 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.
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
First of all I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
God cannot alter the past though historians can.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us the past is fixed while the future is open.
That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25 50 or perhaps 100 years.
Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
Back in the '70s like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears' and that was a kids' movie but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy one has a success but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time it's just wonderful.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness those are life-altering lessons.
Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.
Clearly society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
If you have abandoned one faith do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?