John Baird Quotes

#1. We want a strong, growing economy

John Baird

#2. Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything

Lulu Guinness

#3. Contextualization is a good dance partner, but she should never be allowed to lead. Put her before the exegetical steps in your sequence of preparation, and problems will quickly emerge.

David R. Helm

#4. Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

John Logie Baird

#5. A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Ayn Rand

#6. We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

John Baird

#7. Canada doesn't stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.

John Baird

#8. The biggest threat to the regime is information.

John Baird

#9. You need, instead, to be defined by your values.

John Baird

#10. If you don't like my story,write your own

Chinua Achebe

#11. Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada's values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

John Baird

#12. Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

Nicholas Sparks

#13. There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

John Logie Baird

#14. The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

John Baird