To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.

What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of judgement, raised to a marvelous pitch of vision, which easily grasps and dismisses a thousand remote possibilities an ordinary mind would labor to identify, and wear itself out in doing so.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

There is more power in unity than division.

Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.