Canadian Political Quotes

#1. Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians

Eric Nicol

#2. A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

Donald E. Graham

#3. The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Susanna Moodie

#4. Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.

Rodney Stark

#5. We had a son, whom we named Bertran. Just the one, though I prayed for more. Loving him made me rich in ways I'd too long been poor.

Julie Berry

#6. Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#8. But all he could think of was Inej. She had to live. She had to have made it out of the Ice Court. And if she hadn't, then he had to live to rescue her.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

Juli Inkster

#10. I have a high tolerance for pain, but a low tolerance for discomfort.

Maria Semple

#11. Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

Sam Harris

#12. It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Stockwell Day

#13. Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on their stereos, and win hearts and minds.

Conor Oberst

#14. I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

John Kruk

#15. The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D.H. Lawrence

#16. Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time.

Bob Rae

#17. Wow. So what was the vampire like?" "Pale. Big. Toothy," the trooper answered.

David Wellington

#18. I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos ... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

Will Ferguson

#19. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

Ronaldinho

#20. You don't become ruthless with hugs and kisses. It is pain that makes us.

J.J. McAvoy