Preston Manning Quotes

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• What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

  Preston Manning

  Differences, Slime, Politician

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• There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

  Preston Manning

  Community, Members Of Parliament, Given

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

  Preston Manning

  Country, Rodents, Canada

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• There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

  Preston Manning

  Loss, Top Down, Government

  "Preston Manning on the state of the conservative movement" by Aaron Wherry, www.macleans.ca. March 9, 2013.

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• An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

  Preston Manning

  Thinking, Canada, Optimist

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• My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

  Preston Manning

  Gdp, Political, Canada

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• Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

  Preston Manning

  Negative, Newsworthy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

  Preston Manning

  Decision, Leader, Political

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• The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

  Preston Manning

  Top Down, Doors, People

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

  Preston Manning

  Thinking, Past, Western

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

  Preston Manning

  Government, Culture, Roles

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• Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

  Preston Manning

  Matter, Suspicion, Policy

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

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  Beach, Moving, Fall

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

  Preston Manning

  People, Economic, Aggravated

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Why not learn from the positive aspect of Canadian populism, which is the way to deal with it? Learn from the negative side, but it's more important to learn from the positive side, because it's an enormous amount of energy.

  Preston Manning

  Important, Energy, Negative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Where you find all the worries about immigration, I think the way to handle that is to listen to the person that's got concerns, and then try to move that in a positive direction, as opposed to decrying it and saying, 'Don't even raise that, you can't raise that.'

  Preston Manning

  Moving, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

  Preston Manning

  People, Canada, Politician

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

  Preston Manning

  Christian, Father, Careers

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.

  Preston Manning

  Sacrifice, Impact, Goes On

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• In many respects, my best friends were dogs.

  Preston Manning

  Dog, My Best Friend

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

  Preston Manning

  Looks, Canada, Revolutionary

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• Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

  Preston Manning

  Race, Ethnicity, People

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• Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

  Preston Manning

  Religious, Home, Commitment

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

  Preston Manning

  School, Media, Personality

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• As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

  Preston Manning

  Father, School, Listening

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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