Irving Layton

"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. "