Canada Quotes - Page 3

• I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Hilarious, Country

  "Vancouver Hockey Riot: Blame Canada!". ew.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

  Winston Churchill

  World, Canada Funny, Canada Being Great

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• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Stopping

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• We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Blessed, People, Giving

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967".

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• It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.

  Stephen Harper

  Past, Feds

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• I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Government, Views

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• Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marriage, Wife, Decision

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• The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Trying, Disappear

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• One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth. You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Queens, Intelligent

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Peers, Privilege, Wealth

  "It's great up north" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

  John Diefenbaker

  Ruling The World, Excited, World

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• I don't even know what street Canada is on.

  Al Capone

  Humorous, Streets, Knows

  "Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada". Book by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206, 2009.

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• It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

  Ann Coulter

  Gun, Thinking, Law

  "U of O Speech Cancelled". Ottawa Citizen, March 24, 2010.

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• Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada.

  Ann Coulter

  Taken, Cowboy, Want

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• Canada was built on dead beavers.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beavers, Built

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• Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

  Paul Henderson

  Nice, Guy, Political

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• Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

  John A. Macdonald

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• I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Looks, Hey

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• If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.

  Mira Grant

  Moose, Gears, Want

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• I think that Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world, the way it has managed a diverse population, a migrant economy. The natural beauty of Canada is extraordinary. Obviously there is enormous kinship between the United States and Canada, and the ties that bind our two countries together are things that are very important to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Peter Mansbridge, www.cbc.ca. February 17, 2009.

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• Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Lakes, People, Promise

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• I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

  Will Ferguson

  Funny, Humorous, Home

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• My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

  Jim Carrey

  Proud, Made, Persons

  "Jim Carrey becomes a U.S. citizen" by Gary Susman, ew.com. October 13, 2004.

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• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

  Margaret Atwood

  United States, Mental Illness, Schizophrenia

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• There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

  Stephen Harper

  Trust, Government, Law

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