Gilles Duceppe Quotations

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

I don't think we have to wait for the second report. It's up to the Canadian people to judge this party, the Liberal party.

If the speech stays like this, we're prepared to give the government a chance and vote for (the speech).

Today is the moment of truth for the Liberals, who do not have moral authority to govern. Will the prime minister respect the will of the elected representatives of the people and recognize he no longer has their trust?

There is a firm confirmation that it (the imbalance) exists. This is a budget of transition. The real budget will be next year. We'll see next year if they deliver.

It could help the country, it could help the farmers, it could help the taxi drivers and so on. We have to do something. This is a crisis. It touches a lot of people, especially the forest people,

I think it's very clear, and the reaction today, on TV, on radio, all of them go in the same sense, ... people say they just don't believe Paul Martin wasn't involved. If he didn't see, it's because he didn't want to see.

It is in their interest to negotiate with a sovereign Quebec for the best interests of both peoples,

I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,

Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Paul Martin couldn't not have noticed the articles in The Globe and Mail. That began in 1999, and it wasn't until February of 2004 that he reacted.

I think he made the right decision. The situation has changed. He knows this himself. We have to take this into account and he did.

When they don't have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don't want the Liberals any more. So we're expressing the voices of all those that elected us.

We don't know concretely what he is proposing.

We will be responsible. When something that is proposed that is good for Quebec, we will support that.

Thank you, everyone. That touches me right in the heart.

This is a transition budget that was not worth triggering an election over.

They no longer have the moral authority to govern,

This is the worst thing that can happen in a democracy, and I'm saying that against the Liberal Party,

I'm very confident next time, next referendum, we'll win that referendum.

If you develop a foreign policy the way we see it, then we'll have an army that will intervene mainly to secure democracy in some countries, participating in international forces, going when there's a natural catastrophe, either inside Quebec or outside Quebec,

It has that air, ... It would be surprising if it was Jean Chretien that leaked that part of the report. Who has an interest in doing that?

He presided over a cabinet in which the No. 2 man was Paul Martin,

Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.