Canadian Politician Quotes

Lester B. Pearson

Stephen Harper

John A. Macdonald

Pierre Trudeau

Justin Trudeau

Louis Riel

William Lyon Mackenzie King

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

I know there is a God, because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.

Roméo Dallaire

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

As somebody who understands the pervasive evil of apartheid, to say 'Israel is an apartheid state' is not only false and prejudicial to Israel, but it undermines the real struggle against apartheid and the integrity of that movement.

I've been shaped by the people I've met along the way. I've had great role models and I've had great mentors and a little bit of good luck. Now as a leader in a political movement I want to pay that forward.

John Horgan (politician)

The idea of a universal democracy in America is no more welcome to the minds of thoughtful men among us than was that of a universal monarchy to the mind of the thoughtful men who followed the standard of the third William in Europe, or who afterwards, under the great Marlborough, opposed the armies of the particular dynasty that sought to place Europe under a single dominion. (Hear, hear.) But if we are to a universal democracy on this continent, the lower provinces - the smaller fragments - will be "gobbled up" first, and we will come in afterwards by the way of dessert.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

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

Pierre Bourgault

Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But, no, do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Um, probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.

Discipline is the ultimate tenet of education. Discipline establishes the format, the environment for academic achievement to occur.

I think we already know they're looking to get rid of Fridays. Now we see they don't even take Monday mornings very seriously either.

Well, in a case like this, what do we do? We spit in our hands and we start over!

Jacques Parizeau

I think it's the worst of two worlds because in the current system you choose the best person I'm not sure the prime minister chose the best person. And he cannot claim that it's a democratic process. Really, it's an election that came a very long time ago.

God's law is clear. Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

Generosity makes at least two people feel good.

[Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

The founders of the CCF were called communists. And Social Credit was frequently portrayed as a dangerous mixture of monetary unorthodoxy, religious fundamentalism, and grassroots fascism. It therefore came as no surprise tha the Reform Party was labelled, particularly in the early stages, as "fringe", "extremely right wing", potentially racist, and seperatist.

Preston Manning

The decline in natural-gas revenues has been dramatic and the degree to which we are dependent on oil revenues, it is time for us to consider an increase in corporate and personal tax.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

John A. Macdonald

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

That diabolical deviant is smarter than he smells.

We are not a small people, we are maybe something of a great people.

René Lévesque