Latest Preston Manning Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

  Preston Manning

  Thinking, Past, Western

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

  Preston Manning

  People, Economic, Aggravated

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• Why not learn from the positive aspect of Canadian populism, which is the way to deal with it? Learn from the negative side, but it's more important to learn from the positive side, because it's an enormous amount of energy.

  Preston Manning

  Important, Energy, Negative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I think the federal Liberals' micro-tinkering is not causing any kind of upsurge in public confidence. The challenge for Conservatives is how to not get caught in the same web. I mean, the public just discounts what political people and parties say.

  Preston Manning

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

  Preston Manning

  Negative, Newsworthy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

  Preston Manning

  People, Canada, Politician

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Where you find all the worries about immigration, I think the way to handle that is to listen to the person that's got concerns, and then try to move that in a positive direction, as opposed to decrying it and saying, 'Don't even raise that, you can't raise that.'

  Preston Manning

  Moving, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.

  Preston Manning

  Real, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca