Bourassa Quotes

#1. It seemed to be inadmissible to give in on such a fundamental point. This would have meant that any one who would have wanted to be a terrorist could gain eventually their freedom thanks to another kidnapping.

Robert Bourassa

#2. We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs

Robert Bourassa

#3. There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Robert Bourassa

#4. So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

Henri Bourassa

#5. One can always debate questions back and forth.

Robert Bourassa

#6. A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

Robert Bourassa

#7. There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Robert Bourassa

#8. Let us be French as the Americans are English.

Henri Bourassa

#9. I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

Catherynne M Valente

#10. No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

Hillary Clinton

#11. There's something hypnotic about the word tea.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

Robert Bourassa

#13. There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

Henri Bourassa

#14. Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

Candace Pert

#15. There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Robert Bourassa

#16. Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

Seal

#17. Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.

Henri Bourassa

#18. It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

Robert Bourassa

#19. I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

Robert Bourassa

#20. Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth ...

Keri Hulme