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Canadian Politician Inspirational Quotes (83)

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Ensure compliance and be responsive to the feedback.
Anne McLellan
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Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?
Rob Ford
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Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
Angus MacLean
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie
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If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
William Lyon Mackenzie
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This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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I have a broad view that we have to try and get to yes on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to yes and you protect the environment.
Christy Clark
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If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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I don’t believe in all this public-funded health care, we can’t afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it.
Rob Ford
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I'm not a believer that you should set quotas for these things, because I think what happens is no matter how qualified the woman is who gets the job, people will say she [Hillary Clinton] shouldn't have gotten it. She only got it because she's a woman. That is the problem with quotas.
Christy Clark
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India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
Pierre Pettigrew
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I just think about how many women in their workplaces have been working to get a promotion, and they look around, and then this guy comes.
Christy Clark
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The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
Preston Manning
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We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.
Christy Clark
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The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.
Preston Manning
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Here Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified person based on experience to ever run for president of the United States, and then this guy gets into the race, Bernie Sanders, and suddenly everybody goes, Look at him. He's a real contender -
Christy Clark
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I think we should be worried about the fact that we have become, as a society, very focused on the way people look, the way they dress. I do think we should worry about that because we should be worried about content. We should be worried about ideas. We should not be putting form over function.
Christy Clark
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We have the resources the world needs. We can build a path for them to get there. That's that delicate balance that we find.
Christy Clark
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If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS, probably.
Rob Ford
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Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.
Christy Clark
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In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.
Preston Manning
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I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
Frederick William Borden
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How are we going to know what impact that has on the greenhouse gas emissions? How are we going to hold everybody accountable for doing their part?
Christy Clark
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The people are going to speak. I'm not going to have people who say, 'You can't do this, you can't do that'. I'm going to fight for the taxpayers like I always have.
Rob Ford
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