Canada Quotes - Page 39

• The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.

  B. W. Powe

  Country, Ideas, People

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

  B. W. Powe

  Practice, Work Out, Theory

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Military, Two

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 8, (p. 204), 1969.

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• I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Book, Pension Plans, Names

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Moving, People, Economic

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe.

  Harold Innis

  Government, Europe, Diversity

  Harold Adams Innis (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.21, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Kids, East London, Boxing

  "Lennox Lewis Answers Your Questions". "Talking Point: Forum", news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 1999.

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• Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  People, France, Brotherly Love

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• The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

  Harold Innis

  Animal, Coats, Arms

  Harold Adams Innis (1999). “The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History”, p.3, University of Toronto Press

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• New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

  Preston Manning

  Enough, Attractive, Quebec

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

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• Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, wanting to say "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo".

  Mike Huckabee

  Congratulations, Igloos, Arkansas

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• The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Czech Republic, Currents

  "Merkel Meets Netanyahu amid Tense Relations". Benjamin Netanyahu's statement during his stay in Prague, www.ipsnews.net. December 6, 2012.

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• I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.

  Louis St. Laurent

  Mother, Father, Two

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• For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades - this is where I wanted to start. I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm a gatherer; I'm someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I'm not faking it. I'm actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we're opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP.

  Justin Trudeau

  Teacher, Order, Mps

  "Trudeau Wins Montreal Riding Nomination". www.cbc.ca. April 29, 2007.

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• Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.

  Andrei Gromyko

  Country, Turkeys, Symphony

  New York Herald Tribune, June 30, 1953.

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• Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

  B. W. Powe

  Add, Whole Picture, Puzzles

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  Jean Chretien

  Italian, Dollars, Boards

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• So far as one can generalize, the most graciouis, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Lévesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place.

  Mordecai Richler

  Country, People, Would Be

  Mordecai Richler (1992). “Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: requiem for a divided country”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I think Canada has stayed true to its news roots better than the United States has, in many ways. So I think Al Jazeera America is going to look a lot like the news that Canadians are used to: longer stories, more investigation, deeper analysis, less partisan.

  Ali Velshi

  Thinking, America, Roots

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Two, Opinion

  Stephen Harper's Speech to the National Citizens Coalition's Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, 1994.

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• I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Teamwork, France

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• I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Team, Home

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• Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Immigration, Care, Want

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• You can't let the debate of the day mask the fact that Canadians care deeply in their country. Including Quebecers - from all origins and language. Quebecers care deeply about their country. The idea of Canada and its unity is not something that is set in stone forever, or that is solved. We need to always work towards building this country.

  Jean Charest

  Country, Ideas, Forever

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• When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

  Collin Peterson

  Opposites, Two, Three

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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