Canada Quotes - page 20

Generations of Americans will pay the Republican campaign debt to the energy industry with global instability, depleted national coffers and increased vulnerability to price shocks in the oil market. They will also pay with reduced prosperity and quality of life at home. Pollution from power plants and traffic smog will continue to skyrocket. Carbon-dioxide emissions will aggravate global warming. Acid rain from Midwestern coal plants has already sterilized half the lakes in the Adirondacks and destroyed the forest cover in the high peaks of the Appalachian range up into Canada. The administration's attacks on science and the law have put something even greater at risk. Americans need to recognize that we are facing not just a threat to our environment but to our values, and to our democracy. (Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.)
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters! View quote
Norm Macdonald
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. View quote
Yann Martel
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. View quote
Yann Martel
Significantly, the 14 most transnational firms (in terms of the TNI) originate from small countries (Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada) View quote
Peter Dicken
Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military. View quote
Tom Lantos
Canada is like America without Jesus. View quote
Tim Riley
My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars. View quote
William Shatner
No wonder health care seems less expensive in Canada – service that cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars each year are simply not counted under the Canadian system... Americans actually get more for their health care dollars than Canadians. (David A. Ridenour)
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. View quote
Irving Layton
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget. View quote
Ellen Page
There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small. View quote
Ellen Page
This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas. View quote
Michael Moore
We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers. View quote
Michael Moore
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival. (Rachel McAdams)
I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place. View quote
Neve Campbell
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything. View quote
Stephen Harper
When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day long up in Canada. That was really fun. We were on these back roads with these great cars. View quote
Kyle MacLachlan