On abolition

Shorter Harper Senate appointee Stephen Greene:

We'd get along much better with everybody if we could govern without having to answer inconvenient questions.

In his own image

Shorter Stephen Greene, one of Harper's impending appointees to the Senate, on the much-trumpeted "pledge" to step down if the Senate is reformed:

I'd like to see you try to hold me to it. Suckers.

Edit: added label.