Ottawa Quotes

• If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

  Stephen Harper

  Ifs

  "National Post" Newspaper, December 8, 2000.

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• Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

  Goldwin Smith

  Political, Royal, Village

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• On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.

  John Allen Fraser

  Rivers, Embodiment, Majestic

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!"

  Vivek Shraya

  Girl, Children, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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, Want

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• I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

  Allan Rock

  Country, Gun, Should Have

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• With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.

  Dany Heatley

  Thinking, Years, Guy

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• My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

  Paul Anka

  Towns, Littles, Good Family

  "Paul Anka, the original Canadian idol". Interview with Ben Rayner, www.thestar.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.

  Bob Chiarelli

  Environmental, Quality, Ontario

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• In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

  Tommy Douglas

  Hawks, Dove, Parrots

  Tommy Douglas' remarks on Canadians policy on the Vietnam War during a debate at the House of Commons, February 13, 1967.

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• I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Thinking, Leader, Use

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.

  Alaine Chartrand

  People, Watches, Today

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• I was born in Quebec City, I've lived there many years before moving to Montreal and then Ottawa. And I mean, Quebec City is a very, you know, closed city if I may say. So it's not easy to be accepted living in Quebec City. So if you're from a different faith, you may be a bit timid in showing your faith. So I mean, you're already from a different country, you're an immigrant and hearing what you hear about Islam, you might not wish to be identified as a Muslim, and you may be very discreet into your faith and going to the mosque.

  Andre Pratte

  Country, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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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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• I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.

  Matthew Perry

  Kings, Team, Fans

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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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• I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

  Margaret Atwood

  Football, Games, Six Months

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• 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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• 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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• When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

  Brian Mulroney

  Priorities, Cabinets, Planning

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• We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

  David Suzuki

  Science, Jail, Effort

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• Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Queens, Years

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• You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

  Duane Michals

  Thinking, Expression, Wind

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• We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy.

  Bob Chiarelli

  College, America, Visionaries

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