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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
My staff are pretty protective, it drives me nuts. I like to just do my own thing, that's pretty well it.
Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!
A million people a day go to work in this city and they drive themselves. I don't see why I'm any different.
New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.
I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human.
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid.
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.
When you're overweight like I've been my whole life, you've been made fun of. And, uh, it's not good growing up.
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
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.
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.
I think alcohol is the worst drug of all. It makes you do things that you would never do or say things that you wouldn't.
But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.
There are many different types of bullying, being called fat and all that stuff, it bothers you. You have to deal with it.
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.
Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.
I drive by Baskin Robbins, and - I don't know, it's like - it's pretty hard. Or Dairy Queen. I go nuts. I just gotta keep going.
thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?
What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.
Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But no - do I? am I an addict? - No. Yes, I've made mistakes. All I can do now is apologize and move on.
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.
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.
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?
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.
I hate those damn streetcars - they are just a pain in the rear-end. You get behind them and you can't get around them and then you get your cyclists too.
We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.
Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!
There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.
As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
Canada has always been a strong supporter of Chinas accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete Chinas accession.
Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.
Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.