I've never made any statements about the abortion issue at any time in my life - never retreating one inch - from a woman's rights to legal abortion. Ever.

There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?

The real dynamic is that when Greens are in the debates, Conservatives don't do as well.

For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.

I was known as an activist, described by CBC's 'The Fifth Estate' as 'the 23-year-old waitress who stopped the pulp company dead in its tracks.' Without knowing it was even possible, my activism helped me gain admission to Dalhousie University law school.

It is personal - deep in my bones and my flesh - the knowledge that we squandered our chance to avoid the climate emergency; to act when it would have been so much easier, as we did to stop acid rain, to save the ozone layer.

We appeal to Conservatives who just can't see themselves voting for the corruption and the scandals and the contempt of parliamentary institutions. And of course, we also appeal to people in other parties who are disappointed in their own leadership.

I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's discouraging.

I love being a parliamentarian. I love it but I don't like politics. And I hate elections.

I don't love being Leader of the Green Party. It is not really something I'd recommend to a good friend. It's not fun.

Politics is awful.

I am always interested in looking for the strongest possible leadership.

I would rather not to have to fly across the country at all, but obviously, as a federal party leader, I do.

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

The only party that has better bragging rights than the Greens is the Bloc Quebecois.

I actually find that Canadians are incredibly interested in democracy, and alarmed when they realize that the Prime Minister's Office is controlling virtually everything that goes on within the federal government.

I ran for parliament in 1980 as an independent against Allan J. MacEachen.

People who are good at maintaining a deep oil well will also be very helpful in converting it to a geothermal green energy source. People who have been laying pipe, it's the same skill as putting up a wind turbine.

God, we don't have nearly enough skilled carpenters, electricians, plumbers for the work that needs to be done in taking every single building in Canada and making it carbon-zero, a net-neutral building, by improving insulation, modernizing furnaces, improving the geothermal possibilities, heat pumps.

Individual actions are important because in any democracy, citizens need to feel agency. If you feel powerless, totally powerless, it's psychologically dangerous.

I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

We oppose any pipeline whose sole purpose is to export bitumen from Canada to make profits in other countries.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.

I'm not going to talk about who I voted for.

I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people - thank you, President Obama!

If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.