Canada Quotes - Page 21

• We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

  Billy Sherwood

  Journey, Lasts, Inspired

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• The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

  Ann Veneman

  Strong, Thinking, America

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• We don't want two-tier health care in Canada - one tier for Quebec and another tier for the rest of the country.

  Gordon Campbell

  Country, Two, Care

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• Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

  Bobby Hull

  Suffering, Pioneers, Done

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• I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.

  Duncan Campbell Scott

  Native American, Poetry, Body

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• The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

  James Lovelock

  Iceland, Environmental, Population

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

  Irving Layton

  Usa, United States, Looks

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

  Rick Larsen

  Winter, Opportunity, Games

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• Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.

  Linda McQuaig

  Party, Winning, Popular Vote

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• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Europe, Drug, World

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• Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Bombers, Nuclear, Weapons

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• I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Talking, People, Perspective

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• He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Exercise, Giving

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• I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Influence And Power, World, Standards

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• Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

  Nellie L. McClung

  World, Citizenship, Ready

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• The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?

  Brian Day

  Citizens, Bypass, Healthcare

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• Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

  David Frum

  Real, Independent, Stronger

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Achievement, Presidential

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.769, Best Books on

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• The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Mistake, Moving, Home

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• There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

  Kevin Bales

  Israel, People, Live For Today

  Kevin Bales (1999). “Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Country, Blue

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• I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it.

  Louis Riel

  People, Everyday, Honestly

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• Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

  Jeff Ross

  Achievement, Age, Lasts

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• I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Ohio, Years

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• I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

  Stephane Dion

  Country, Justice, Growth

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