Judy LaMarsh Short Quotes

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Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

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Pearson had a good grasp of French, although his accent was terrible.

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I had always assumed that if I made it to Parliament I would not remain a back bencher.

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We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.

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I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.

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Everyone is an expert on T. V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T. V. set.

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One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

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A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

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I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

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The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

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Had it not been for Centennial, with its gaiety and its essential Canadianness, there could never have been a Trudeau as Prime Minister.

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I was the first, and to date, the only woman veteran ever elected, and there is a surprisingly low percentage of veterans in Parliament.

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I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

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Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

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Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.

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I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

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Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

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Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

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Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.

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We had thought Mike the greatest; now we began to discover he was only human and, worse, we had our first dismaying confrontation with the fact that he would not back up his ministers.

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I did not spring, when I first entered Parliament, on November 15,1960, "fully armed, with a mighty shout" from a breach in Lester B. Pearson's skull. like the Pallas Athena from the head of Zeus.

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My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

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