Layton, Jack

Canadian politician

leader of New Democratic Party 2003--

• "Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
• "Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy."(On President Richard M Nixon)"
• "In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
• "Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
• "When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."