[N Say]

...you mean quotes like these?<br /> <br /> "Canada had established a powerful precedent that, when it judged an industry of strategic importance, it could intervene to reorient its development to serve what it viewed to be the national interest. The US had signalled by its acquiescence that, press though it would on behalf of its corporations, it would give way to a Canadian government determined to pursue what it believed to be a reasonable and necessary course of action. Canada had re-established the right to intervene in its own affairs." -- Stephen Clarkson, on the NEP<br /> <br /> "One litmus test of the Mulroney-Reagan special relationship would be the unemployment level. If foreign investment did not come flooding into the economy, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs as Mulroney has promised, but merely trickled in to take over and close down Canadian enterprises; if unchecked pollution wreaked major damage on the tourist, forestry and fishing industries of central & eastern Canada; if Canada's exports to the US market kept being targeted for retaliation by still more effective non-tariff measures: then the brand new Canadian-American relationship would have paid off far more for the United States than for Canada." -- Clarkson again, 1985<br /> <br /> "the percentage of wholly manufactured commodities which we have been exporting has been continually increasing. In other words, we are getting away from the stage of a country which is selling its raw materials to the stage where as a country we are developing a large manufacturing industry as well... we have reached a higher in our manufacturing development in Canada, having regard to the age of the country an its population, than has, I believe, any other country in the history of the world." -- WLM King on US branch plants in Canada<br /> <br /> "You must not take the Militia seriously, for though it is useful for suppressing internal differences, it will not be required for the defence of the country, as the Monroe Doctrine [proclaiming US military hegemony in the Americas] protects us against enemy aggression." -- Wilfred Laurier <br /> <br /> "...this, for example, is the position taken by R French in his insightful review of federal industrial policy-making during the 1970s. On the one side, he noted the formidable barriers to meaningful change erected by both powerful vested political and economic interests as well as conventional bureaucratic wisdom and practices. On the other, he pointed out that a government would have to be prepared to wait for ten to twenty years to realize the fruits of any industrial strategy initiatives. Accordingly, with the benefits vague and distant, and the opposition immediate and well-organised, the political system itself has militated against radical solutions to our industrial difficulties. As French concludes, "democratic government are nothing if not risk averse."<br /> <br /> At this point, our conclusion teeters on a fine edge. Although I have consciously striven throughout the book to be more descriptive than prescriptive, the reader can have little doubt as to the author's own preference for a fundamental reorgientation and restructuring of Canadian manufacturing. After leading you through a hundred years of the Canadian industrial wilderness, I confess to being sorely tempted, like others who have preceded me, to now stand on a mountain with outspread hands and raised voice of a biblical prophet to predict either forty years of feast, if the wicked are vanquished, or forty years of famine if they are not. Yet, I cannot help but feel that there is much in the contemporary era which makes the use of such a conventional literary formula out of place. We may be at a very unique juncture in Canadian economic development in which it is possible, without wistful prescription, to forsee the fracture and even eventual dismemberment of the until now apparently unassailable continentalist fortress..." -- Glen Williams, late 80s

[michou]

I find this new quote by Condoleeza Rice to be quite inspiring and I will recite it whenever I need to be reminded of the American administration's altruist and generous heart.<br /> <br /> <i>« The tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the U.S. government, but the heart of the American people, and I think it has paid great dividends for us. »</i><br /> U.S. Secretary of State designate Condoleeza Rice during her confirmation hearing. <br /> <br />

[whelan costen]

Michou that is unbelievable! Good quote...but really what the heck is she saying....is everything that happens in the world directly or indirectly a byproduct or creation 'of' or 'for' the U.S.'s benefit? That is a woman who speaks such blatant truth and yet people are so shocked by it they think she made a mistake! Thanks for the quote.

[Dr Caleb]

One of my favourites: <br /> <br /> "If you feel too small and insignificant to make a change in the world, try sleeping with a mosquito!" The Dahli Llama<br /> <br />

[Reverend Blair]

My current favourite, "Who's our MP? I had one of his signs. I think he's Alliance." A man in the Punnichy bar.

[Roy_Whyte]

You mean like:<br /> "The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812." Paul Hellyer<br /> <br /> We were using quotes on our site up until a few weeks ago. We have over 120 similar quotes and will give them to whoever wants to use them for their own use. Just drop me a line.<br /> <br /> "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr <br /> <br /> That one is for the trolls.