Canada Quotes - Page 17

• All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

  Chris Alexander

  Kabul, Locals

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

  Alan Bersin

  Order, America, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Jobs, Numbers

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

  Donald Trump

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Council

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We've had great conversations with the United Kingdom and meetings, Israel, Mexico, Japan, China and Canada, really, really productive conversations.

  Donald Trump

  Israel, Japan, Mexico

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Nationality

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• We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Presidential, Peaceful, United States

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• I'm so proud of how well Canada did at the Games here. It think we're going to do even better in 2010.

  Cindy Klassen

  Thinking, Games, Proud

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• The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Opposites

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, America, Roles

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• In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

  Marc Garneau

  Hands, Three, Arms

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• I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or England, but I didn't want to leave the United States, because for better or worse I'm an American, and this is my land; so I decided to fight it out on home ground, and finally we hit upon Hawaii, because of the liberal atmosphere created by its racial admixture, and because of its relatively large population of Buddhists, who are largely nontheistic.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Buddhist, Home, Fighting

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• I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real as Canada. It's a self-centeredness that's a very strange thing.

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Overcoming, Culture

  "New Brunswick Telegraph Journal", May 29, 2002.

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• Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Mistake, Bilingualism

  "Calgary Sun", May 6, 2001.

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• The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

  Stephen Harper

  World, Share, Continents

  Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper: The New North Strong and Free, May 5, 2003.

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• Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  Allies, Events, Degrees

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Government, Promise

  "Postmedia News" Interview, nationalpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

  Stephen Harper

  Needs, Economy, Stimulus

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

  Jane Jacobs

  Two, Program, Referendums

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• Not only in Canada but in other countries where we have to rely on immigration for our growth, the question of coexistence of values in communities is important. It has to be dealt with.

  Philippe Couillard

  Country, Community, Growth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

  Elton John

  Country, America, States

  "Elton John's incredible life: Rock icon on fatherhood, fame, addiction and his brush with death". Interview with Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2013.

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• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Bags, Scum, Share

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

  Stockwell Day

  Religious, Sex, Government

  Government Orders: Civil Marriage Act, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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• Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

  Stockwell Day

  Law, Principles, Supremacy

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