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shaniagal
05-23-2005, 10:37am
THIS THREAD IS MADE FOR JENN :p:up:

Patrick: I'm Mad
Spongebob: What's the matter Patrick?
Patrick: I can't see my forehead
~from the TV show Spongebob Squarepants

:funny:

Blue_Firefly
05-23-2005, 11:05am
:funny: Ooooh man!

I still dunno if I can say what quote is in my head. It's soooo damn funny but kind of racist. I didn't say it, it is from a cartoon TV show called American Dad (by the same person that created Family Guy). Anyway, I rather not post it just to be safe. But once I get a funny quote in my head, I will be sure to post it.

Blue_Firefly
05-23-2005, 11:28am
Actually, if this counts, I had this quote in my head a few days ago after I watched The Lion King...


Mufasa - What am I going to do with him?
Zazu - He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
Mufasa - Zazu.
Zazu - And just think, whenever he gets dirty you can take him out and beat him.
When they're talking about Scar

Or something along those lines :funny:

Blue_Firefly
05-23-2005, 11:34am
This is a great one too! I actually found out the words, or what he's saying (also from Lion King)

Rafiki: Asante sahna squash banana webe wu a webe wu! :biglaugh:
Adult Simba: Stop that! What does that mean anyway?
Rafiki: It means YOU'RE a baboon... and I'm not.

shaniagal
05-23-2005, 11:40am
lol :biglaugh: maybe we should make this the funny quotes thread instead.

Before judging someone you hate, walk a mile in thier shoes. Then, you're a mile away from them, and you have thier shoes.
:funny:


The statistics on sanity are that 1 out of every 3 people has some sort of mental illness. Take a look at your two best friends. If they're normal, then its you.
~Rita Mae Brown

Blue_Firefly
05-23-2005, 11:44am
LOL....oh man those are great!

But we really shouldn't change this to a funny quotes thread cuz Matty will want to post his Star Wars quotes here :p

I am so happy I finally found out what Rafiki says in that scene "Asante sahna squash banana webe wu a webe wu!" :funny: It cracks me up and I don't know why! Now I can run around saying it perfectly lol

shaniagal
05-23-2005, 11:55am
A sign seen on a restroom dryer at O'Hare Field in Chicago: Do not activate with wet hands.

In a Laundromat: Automatic washing machines. Please remove all your clothes when the light goes out

lol!!!!!! :biglaugh:

shaniagal
05-23-2005, 1:26pm
LOL....oh man those are great!

But we really shouldn't change this to a funny quotes thread cuz Matty will want to post his Star Wars quotes here :p

I am so happy I finally found out what Rafiki says in that scene "Asante sahna squash banana webe wu a webe wu!" :funny: It cracks me up and I don't know why! Now I can run around saying it perfectly lol

you even put it in your siggy

Blue_Firefly
05-23-2005, 1:29pm
you even put it in your siggy

Indeed I did....It's funny stuff

shania-little
05-23-2005, 2:21pm
lol :biglaugh: maybe we should make this the funny quotes thread instead.

Before judging someone you hate, walk a mile in thier shoes. Then, you're a mile away from them, and you have thier shoes.
:funny:


The statistics on sanity are that 1 out of every 3 people has some sort of mental illness. Take a look at your two best friends. If they're normal, then its you.
~Rita Mae Brown

:p :funny: :funny:

matty
05-23-2005, 4:04pm
Dave mustaine screaming - can you put a price on peace? *riff*

~Lisa~
05-23-2005, 8:02pm
This is a great one too! I actually found out the words, or what he's saying (also from Lion King)

Rafiki: Asante sahna squash banana webe wu a webe wu! :biglaugh:
Adult Simba: Stop that! What does that mean anyway?
Rafiki: It means YOU'RE a baboon... and I'm not.

OMG! :biglaugh: that one is great :biglaugh:

Blue_Firefly
05-24-2005, 6:18pm
Haven't really had a quote in my head today. Too busy doing stuff to get distracted and think about funny quotes from movies and such :p

matty
06-20-2005, 4:07pm
old guy: I heard animals in there Ventura, i heard em again this morning scratching around!

Ace: I never bring my work home with my sir.

Old guy: O yeah? Whats all this pet food for!?

Ace: .............fibre

:funny:

Blue_Firefly
06-24-2005, 10:05pm
"Lisa went potty during break between Shania concerts then she went skiing five months later." - One Word thread lol

Blue_Firefly
07-13-2005, 1:23am
I dunno if any of you have seen the cartoon show South Park, but it's a pretty messed up show about four 8 year-old boys. Anyway, in the episode in which I got the quote in my head from, they are pretending to be crime scene investigators, but eventually do end up being hired. Anyway, seems how none of them actually know what they're doing or talking about, one of the kids says "We're going to need a semen sample from everything in this room" :biglaugh:

orry
10-25-2005, 8:03am
"Tommorrow is another day". Scarlet O'Hara - Gone With The Wind.

canoilers
12-20-2005, 9:53am
I've got a whack of them. Here goes nothing baby. :D

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
-Helen Keller

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
-Mark Twain

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest."
-Charles Dickens

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
-Wolfgang von Johann Goethe

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-Pablo Picasso

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
-Samuel Butler

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid."
-John Wayne

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."
-Henry Ford

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."
-Bob Marley

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
-William Osler

"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."
-Jonathan Swift

"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... 'til you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
-Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
-Helen Keller

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
-Marcus Aurelius

"No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it."
-Richard Bach

"In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
-Aristotle

"May you live all the days of your life."
-Jonathan Swift

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
-Daniel Boorstin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
-John Wayne

"Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
-Leo F. Buscaglia

"It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."
-Queen Christina of Sweden

"Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."
-Henri Nouwen

"Where there is love there is life."
-Indira Gandhi

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
-Mark Twain

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
-Horace Walpole

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
-Marcus Aurelius

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
-Richard Bach

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-George Bernard Shaw

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
-Hubert H. Humphrey

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity."
-Proverb

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
-Helen Keller

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
-Oscar Wilde

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King, Jr.



"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
-Plato

canoilers
12-20-2005, 9:54am
Oh I've got more. :p All these are from Carl Sagan.

"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
--Carl Sagan

"It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness."
--Carl Sagan

"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
--Carl Sagan


"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."
--Carl Sagan

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
--Carl Sagan

"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right.
-- Carl Sagan

"For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgoten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxys than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers."
-- Carl Sagan

"The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit."
-- Carl Sagan

"The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out."
-- Carl Sagan

"...the scientific cast of mind examines the world critically, as if many alternative worlds might exist, as if other things might be here which are not. Then we are forced to ask why what we see is present and not something else. Why are the Sun and moon and the planets spheres? Why not pyramids, or cubes, or dodecahedra? Why not irregular, jumbly shapes? Why so symetrical, worlds? If you spend any time spinning hypotheses, checking to see whether they make sence, whether they conform to what else we know. Thinking of tests you can pose to substantiate or deflate hypotheses, you will find yourself doing science."
-- Carl Sagan

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."
--Carl Sagan.

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
--Carl Sagan.

"When you make the finding yourself--even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light--you never forget it."
--Carl Sagan.

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?


If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

canoilers
12-20-2005, 9:56am
I've got more.

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." Nelson Mandela

"We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not." Thomas Jefferson

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” - Nelson Mandela

“Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.” - Albert Camus

“I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.” - Mahatma Ghandi

“'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.” - Dag Hammarskjold
Former UN General Secretary

“Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.” Mary Robinson:
United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights


“No shift in the way we think or act is more critical than this: we must put people at the centre of everything we do. That is the essence of human security.”

- Kofi Annan

“Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.”

- Lester B. Pearson

“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular- but one must take it simply because it is right.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.


“Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.”

-King Baudouin I
King of Belgium

“An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.”

- Montesquieu


“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”

- John F Kennedy

“Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.”

- Emile Zola

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 Elliott Trudeau

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw

canoilers
12-20-2005, 9:57am
Couple from Lester B Pearson.

"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."

"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."

"We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation"

canoilers
12-20-2005, 10:00am
I've got some for JFK too.

“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. “

"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."


"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world which will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
JFK 10/26/63 Amherst College

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
JFK, 10/26/63

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
JFK 10/26/63

Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men...have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
JFK, Profiles in Courage, 1956

Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right-not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.
July 4, 1962

Our duty as a party is not to our party alone, but to the nation and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom.
John F. Kennedy, speech planned

The Supreme Reality of Our Time is...the Vulnerability of our Planet"
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), speech, June 28, 1963

A child miseducated is a child lost.
JFK State of the Union, 1963

"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."

[Mr. President, how did you become a war hero?]
It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy "The Kennedy Wit"

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
John F. Kennedy

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy, Speech to The UN. 1961

Peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.
John F. Kennedy, 6-10-1963

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy 1-20-1963

canoilers
12-20-2005, 10:29am
Here are some about my country, they come from Canadian and non-Canadians alike. Some are stupid and funny and some are great.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last
produced a political leader worthy
of assassination
- Irving Layton

"I am a Canadian,
free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way,
free to stand for what I think right,
free to oppose what I believe wrong, or
free to choose those who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind." John Diefenbaker

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." John Diefenbaker

Canada has no identity and never has had an identity. Any sense of identity we have is our sense of density. ~Marshall McLuhan

We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau

you don't believe your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.
Stompin' Tom Connors

We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
John G. Diefenbaker

With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
Will Ferguson

I always thought of this as God's country.
Jack Granatstein

We are tremendously proud of our cultures, heritage and achievements and we will continue to break new ground. I am proud to be a Canadian and I hope you are too.
Philip K. Lee

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
Will Ferguson

The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.
June Callwood

What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.
Anonymous

I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.
Will Ferguson

Canada is probably the most free country in the world where a man still has room to breathe, to spread out, to move forward, to move out, an open country with an open frontier Canada has created harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups, and it must take this experience to the world because there is yet to be such an example of harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups. Valentyn Moroz

I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

You Canadians have given us such hope to carry on. We admire your bravery You are the neighbour of such a rich, powerful country, and yet you don’t mind clashing with them. Well, that gives us more confidence.
Pedro Gutierrez

Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
John Maynard Keynes

When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
Jane Fonda

In only a century and a quarter since Confederation, Canadians have shaped out of the North American wilderness one of the most privileged societies on the face of the earth. Ranking among the seven most prosperous nations in the world, Canada is rich not only in the abundance of our resources and the magnificence of our land, but also in the diversity and the character of our
people. We have long been known as one of the most tolerant, progressive, innovative, caring and peaceful societies in existence.
The Will of a Nation: Awakening the Canaadian Spirit
George Radwanski & Julia Luttrell

We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
Andy Barrie

God Bless America, but God help Canada to put up with them!
Anonymous

I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.
(Prime Minister) John Diefenbaker.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Al Capone

We are lucky to live in a country as rich as ours. To break it apart would be asinine in the highest degree.
Barry Gerding

Vive la Canada. This country is not for sale.
Don Sweet

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.
Helen Gordon McPherson

In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.
U.S. President Bill Clinton

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!
Rick Mercer

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
Farley Mowat

He shall have dominion also from sea unto sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth
from Psalm 72

As we enter our centenial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and exellent in the human spirit.
Lester B. Pearson

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its verile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
Sir Winston Churchill

Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not devide; sharing in cooperation, not in seperation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.
(Prime Minister) Lester B. Pearson

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.
Sir Winston Churchill

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.
Peter Jennings

A constitution nursed upon the oxygen of our bright winter atmosphere makes its owner feel as though he could toss about the pine trees in his glee.
Lord Dufferin

I once drove back through southern Manitoba at night. I was stunned by the beauty the prairies can offer. I remember the sleepy farming towns at rest - a reminder of the legacy of honest, hard working people who built a nation.
Duane W. Berke

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau

As always, Canada will now bury its war dead, just as the rest of the world, as always, will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her
for a dance.
Kevin Myers (The Daily Telegraph, London)

We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren't but only weak ones about who we are. We're passionate about what we don't want to become but oddly passive about what we should be.
John Cruickshank (in McLean's Magazine)

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (on finding no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction)

Gentlemen, we all must realize that neither side has any monopoly on sons of *****es.
C.D. Howe (in Washington to resolve a shipping dispute)

Down in Newfoundland, we can hardly sleep for wondering when St. Pierre and Miquelon are going to invade.
John Crosbie (on the state of Canada's military in 1983)

Canada is the greatest nation in this country.
Former Toronto mayor Allan Lamport