Canadians Quotes

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Doug Coupland

Car, Long, American

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.
Hugh Jackman

Government, Live, Parents

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Mike Myers

Love, Great, Anger

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
Stephen Ambrose

Live, Done, Same

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.
Stephen Harper

Understand, Nation, Economy

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
Stephen Harper

Government, Finance, Happen

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
Stephen Harper

Government, Leader, Reason

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
Stephen Harper

Government, Country, Support

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.
Stephen Harper

Health, Medical, Understand

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.
Jason Reitman

Wife, Two, Sense

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

Love, Racism, Canada

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Stockwell Day

Government, Society, Legal

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
Stockwell Day

Change, Work, Hard

Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.
Stockwell Day

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Northrop Frye

Money, Country, Moral

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
Pierre Trudeau

Home, Strong, Country

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Throw, Behaved

I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.
Rick Mercer

Hope, Travel, Real

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
Paul Martin

Enjoy, Circle, Vicious

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
Paul Martin

Women, Equality, Society

Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.
Dave Foley

Country, Pride, Since

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.
Dave Foley

Time, Means, Spend

Canadians are so easily wounded.
Tucker Carlson

Wounded, Easily

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
Kim Campbell

Work, Family, Care

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
Kim Campbell

Hope, Real, False

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
Kim Campbell

Future, Cannot, Sense

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.
Kim Campbell

Greater, Serve, Honour

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.
Kim Campbell

Great, Patriotic, Displays

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
Alex Campbell

Change, Past, American

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.
Alex Campbell

Life, Best, Society

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