Quebec Quotes - Page 3

• We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on culture. My position is that culture can actually be economically viable. When I make a film, the film costs $3 million. Now, in Quebec, it grossed $3.5 million, which is a small film. It's not a comedy. There are no stars in it. And, it still grosses $3.5 million. That's just in Quebec.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stars, Military, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

  Gilles Duceppe

  Army, Ridiculous

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• [If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

  Jane Jacobs

  Government, Missing, Would Be

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• Unfortunately [René] Lévesque had so little self confidence in Quebec and in the people themselves, that he fell for that and, yes, he'd say, you know, it might be ruinous for us economically.

  Jane Jacobs

  Self Confidence, People, Littles

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. Any indication of revolt on the part of Quebec was either bought off, with a good deal of corruption.

  Jane Jacobs

  Levels, Sweden, Canada

  Source: aqi.quebec

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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, Canada, Program

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• Quebec's financial situation is serious. In terms of intensity, we're close to matching 1982 and 1997. We won't do the same things this time, but the problems we face today are about as pressing.

  Philippe Couillard

  Today, Faces, Matching

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In Quebec, our goal isn't to reduce daycare service - a program the entire world envies - but to make it viable so tomorrow's families can keep benefiting from it.

  Philippe Couillard

  Envy, Goal, Daycare

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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

  Canada, Enough, Attractive

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

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• Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Gun, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.961, e-artnow

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• I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Writing, Drawing

  "Margaret Atwood on Her New Book MaddAddam". The Oprah magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. September, 2013.

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• Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

  James Wolfe

  Gentleman, Lines, Tomorrow

  1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

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• I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

  Lucien Bouchard

  Roles, Affair, Ends

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• If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

  Pierre Bourgault

  Doe, Canada, Can Not

  "La Colère . Écrits Polémiques". Book by Pierre Bourgault, Volume 3, p. 257, 1996.

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• Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Class, Paris

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.408, Vintage Canada

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• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Humble, Law

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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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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• Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Government, House, Doubt

  Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865.

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• I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.

  Xavier Dolan

  Talent, Young, Precocious

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.

  Neil Peart

  Country, Yoga, Home

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• Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

  Kim Campbell

  Real, Roles, Ottawa

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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Journey

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

  Will Ferguson

  Travel, Men, Hands

  Will Ferguson (2010). “Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada”, p.220, Vintage Canada

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• From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.

  Jean Charest

  Canada, Separation, Moments

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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