Canada Quotations

I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.

Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.

Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.

If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Two races share today the soil of Canada These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never thought I could be so funky! I mean, a white boy from Canada - a Jew - getting down with his funky bad self!

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.

One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.

Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I felt at home in Canada. And also, you speak French.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.

And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I look at Canada like a second home.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses.

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments.

If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.