Stephen Harper Party Quotations

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

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

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

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

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 have in office a corrupt party which now is ignoring the democratically expressed will of the House of Commons. This government does not have the moral authority and the constitutional authority to govern.

Let the Liberals complain about facing the people. We're interested in facing the future as a party and a country.

Our party will make those decisions in our own way and in our own time,

I think one of the difficulties here is that the Liberal Party has been so badly run and has relied so long on taxpayers' money to supplement its activities that I don't think the Liberal Party has been able to pay for polling, to pay for these other things.

We can win seats in every region, and at this point I think we are the only party that can realistically win seats in every province.

We came together as a party and now we will govern for all Canadians.

Why is the government not suing the Liberal party to recover the money that was lost or stolen?

Tonight friends, our great country has voted for change, and Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change.

What really needs to happen is this culture of waste and mismanagement and corruption that the Liberal Party practices must end,

This culture of waste, management and corruption that the Liberal Party practices needs to end, ... I don't think it's going to end with a few firings. I think it's only going to end when we fire the government.

This country has the opportunity of electing a new government, to bring the country together, East and West, English and French, city and farm, new Canadians and old. Only one party can do it.

This party will not take its position based o-n public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based o-n focus groups. We will not take a stand based o-n phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

It really is up to Mr. Layton to decide how long he's prepared to support the Liberal Party and its waste and corruption.

I've established a party that is well financed, that is paying its own bills, that has been running in the black. And we can afford to pay for our own partisan activities.

I want the best people in my cabinet. And I want to broaden the base of our party beyond those who voted for it.

I'm confident of their judgment and if the Liberal party shares the same confidence, they're free to call an election.

Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change. We will honor your words and deliver on our commitments.

High-ranking Liberals cynically manipulated the sponsorship program to enrich their party and their friends, ... The Liberals are still in office; no Liberal is still in jail. Political accountability will have to rest with the voters.

The Liberal party thinks public money is a party election fund,

I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.