Joe Clark quotes

We will not take this nation by storm or by stealth or by surprise. We will win it by work. (Joe Clark)
Mr. Speaker, as I was saying on November 27, 1979, before I was so rudely interrupted... View quote
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You will know that in our most recent skirmishes, I won some debating points and he won another general election. View quote
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I do more than reflect and respect this country, I fight for it... the question for Canadians is "Can we win?" Yes, we can win except when we are fighting ourselves. View quote
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It has been my ironic lot to be seen as both a statesman and a scrapper. The statesman is the more respectable reputation. But the scrapper is what these last four years have required. View quote
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The greatest foreign minister in Canadian history except for Lester Pearson...the person who tried first of all to get rid of the deficit...the credit for the fight in trying to get rid of the deficit belongs to Joe Clark and John Crosbie, and yet they are scorned. View quote
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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. View quote
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The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium. View quote
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'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse. View quote
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There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match. View quote
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