The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. (Barbara Amiel)
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists. (Barbara Amiel)
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. (Barbara Amiel)
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. (Barbara Amiel)
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. (Barbara Amiel)
But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speaking circuit. It has caught up with me. (Barbara Amiel)
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people. (Barbara Amiel)
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. (Barbara Amiel)
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World. (Barbara Amiel)
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. (Barbara Amiel)
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. (Barbara Amiel)
The Chinese understand that slave labour, which they thrive on, is not productive or useful to the economy if it is only extracted by torture. (Barbara Amiel)
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. (Barbara Amiel)
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. (Barbara Amiel)
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. (Barbara Amiel)