Pierre Poilievre Quotes

“Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.”

“As prime minister, I would relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as possible, leaving people to cultivate their own personal prosperity and to govern their own affairs as directly as possible.”

“As someone who has put my life on hold, my personal life on hold, for Parliament and for public service for over a decade and a half, I really got to a culmination point where I had to make a decision to have more normality in my life, or sacrifice that entirely for a campaign that was going to be all consuming.”

“Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.”

“Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.”

“Canadians no longer have any financial room. Half of Canadians are $200 away from insolvency. They are facing a slowing economy with a diminishing number of jobs, and a rising cost of living to go along with it. That is the consequence of the Trudeau, Morneau tax-and-spend agenda, which is driving our economy down.”

“Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.”

“Each time you live through a controversy you strengthen.”

“Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.”

“Government cannot tax what Parliament does not approve, but Parliament cannot approve what it does not know.”

“I do believe in our system there's a role for holding the government accountable, and it's very important to have voices who represent the people and ensure the government, which has enormous power, respects the will of the people. That's what I hope to do.”

“I have always been open to ways we can make a great bill even better.”

“I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance.”

“I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve their goals.”

“I stated that aboriginals deserve protection under Canada's human rights laws and that the record dollars that the government is spending on aboriginals should reach the people in need.”

“I think the opposition parties, particularly the NDP, probably should have more voice. I can't even remember the last time the NDP had a free vote.”

“I'm incredibly humbled the people of Carleton have very generously put their faith in me.”

“I'm thankful, thankful for the local farm family that gave me the idea for the Children's Fitness Tax Credit.”

“I'm very comfortable with my record and I'm just going to keep on working hard.”

“If the Bank of Canada does want to start getting more and more political, then it will be held to the same level of political accountability as other political entities.”

“If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.”

“If the knowledge of the cost of the carbon tax in itself would cause injury to the Canadian economy, then that cost must be even worse than we have imagined.”

“If the Liberals and NDP were to take office they would take the benefits away and raise taxes.”

“If there are violent lawbreakers who want to rob the livelihoods of honest hard-working Canadians in the energy sector, then those lawbreakers should be treated like lawbreakers.”

“If you are ideologically opposed to income splitting for families, why wouldn't you scrap it for seniors? What is the distinguishing principle between income splitting for people with kids and income splitting for people who are retired?”

“It is time to unleash our economy... to unleash the free market system so that businesses can grow and prosper so that our workers can be rewarded for their work and our economy can relaunch to its rightful place at the head of the pack.”

“It's clear Justin Trudeau has something to hide.”

“It's interesting to note that Michael Ignatieff's ads don't mention Michael Ignatieff. Nor do they mention any positive plan for the economy or the country.”

“Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.”

“Let us follow the facts, not Liberal ideology, and let us target the root cause of terrorism. They are called terrorists.”