Famous Quotes & Sayings

We saw consolidation of the gains in the Canadian dollar from last Friday.

Neil Young

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

Alanis Morissette

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Jakaya Kikwete

Our government is focused on creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity and on creating the right conditions for Canadian businesses.

Panel after panel has found that Canadian softwood lumber is not subsidized, ... The United States claims that it has complied with NAFTA. In fact, the United States will only have complied with NAFTA when it stops collecting the duties and refunds the deposits.

Stockwell Day

Over the past quarter-century, with breathtaking speed, our courts are retooling the entire history of Canadian jurisprudence.

Michael Chambers

Our goal is to limit the number of distractions from what is proving to be an enormously successful winter season for Canadian athletes.

Michael Shanks

We never thought the show would last this long.

Michael Shanks

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

I think there would be an awkwardness to say the least for a Canadian company to walk in the door and say where do we go from here.

I suppose, a person for whom freedom is the most important thing - intellectual freedom and, as far as possible, physical freedom.

I sat in the stands all week and perfected my Canadian accent,

Jack Layton

That doesn't seem right to me. Canadians paid for this.

George Galloway

That doesn't sound very much like neutrality to me, ... You should raise the demand to end the Canadian occupation of Afghanistan.

Michael Fox

My son will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

Victor Garber

My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.

Michael Ironside

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Cindy Klassen

I was truly overwhelmed to represent the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.

Andrea Martin

I was very claustrophobic, and I couldn't hear, and it was enormously challenging. And that's why, frankly, I never did it again.

I suppose the Ivey may be having some small effects, but we don't think it should be. Fundamentally we don't think there's been any real shift in the Canadian economy.

It'd be interesting if you had to find a record for everything you had to say. But I think that whole talking code thing is great.

I think it would be just great for Canadian baseball. There's a natural connection. Hopefully it all gets worked out.

Donal Logue

I think I was able to ride on a good wave of not seeming too desperate. There's a confidence in there that's actually rare for me.

Deborah Kara Unger

I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute.

Colin Mochrie

Judy Garland would gain and lose a lot of weight, and because of that, she ended up having no derriere, so she had to have a prosthetic one to give her shape in some of her evening gowns. Because we're working on a Canadian show and they're very cheap, they wanted to take my wife's prosthetic (butt) away. That was the whole pilot. The great thing about a Canadian show is we have a little more freedom, I think.

Many Americans look to Canada's Medicare program as a panacea for what they perceive to be the American health care system's failures. These wonderful visions of Canada's socialized health program tend to ignore the very real costs that system imposes on Canadians in need of medically necessary care: long wait times that can stretch into months or even years of painful and detrimental delay. The reality is that Canada's Medicare program is a model for no one, not even Canada.

I think Vancouver will be sensational. Canadians love winter sports.

It isn't the same game it was four years ago, or even one year ago. We're a much different team, and the Canadians have made changes as well. The rest of the world is getting better every day. You've got to meet those challenges head-on, or you're going to get caught from behind.

Rick Moranis

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

I was a little nervous. I didn't expect the Canadians to be so close.

Jennifer Heil

I was a little disappointed but hopefully they will raise the Canadian flag, not the American flag (at the official medal ceremony).

Phil Hartman

Wonderful Canadian family who gave me free Canadian Scotch daily,