Canada Quotes - Page 9

• Canada is a vast and empty country.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Empty

  Leaders' Debate, December 15, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question....Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Mistake, Unity

  "Calgary Sun" Newspaper, May 6, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be economic progress, or that's what you look to That kind of can't-do attitude is a problem in this country but it's obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Attitude, Government

  4 Copy quote

• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. ... I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Thinking, Mass Destruction

  "Maclean's" Magazine, August, 25, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

  Brian Mulroney

  Vision, Environment, Arctic

  22 Copy quote

• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Railroads

  9 Copy quote

• The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

  John Bruton

  Country, Japan, Agriculture

  16 Copy quote

• The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

  Steve Buscemi

  Care, Trends, Location

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Bags, Scum, Share

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, America, Roles

  10 Copy quote

• In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

  Marc Garneau

  Hands, Three, Arms

  9 Copy quote

• I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.

  Cory Monteith

  Support, Used

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

  Cory Monteith

  Football, School, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Book, Men

  23 Copy quote

• We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Suffering, Care

  "Michael Moore: 'We need to be a less selfish society'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. July 25, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Sarcasm, Thinking

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

  Mike Myers

  Country, Cities, Musician

  4 Copy quote

• How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

  Neal Stephenson

  Dark, Bother

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.653, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Next, Welcome

  20 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• My first trip to Canada has been great!

  Cody Simpson

  Firsts, Has Beens

  4 Copy quote

• To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.

  Hayley Wickenheiser

  Excitement, Chill, Honour

  10 Copy quote

• There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

  Jean Chretien

  Silence, Political, Together

  26 Copy quote

• It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Beach, Spring, Ocean

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

  Emily Murphy

  Country, Believe, Race

  116 Copy quote