Ottawa Quotes - Page 2

• What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Iran, Turkeys

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• I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Perry

  Player, Tennis, Canada

  "Man to Man: Matthew Perry". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. September 11, 2012.

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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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• Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

  Maurice Duplessis

  Twenties, Fifteen, Cents

  Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954.

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• It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.

  Jean Chretien

  Mother, Boys, Cities

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

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