45 quotes found
"As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same."
"Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth."
"" many on the right confuse the "is" of globalization with the "ought" of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed."
"The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience."
"The premise of neo-conservatives is that markets left to their own devices will produce the best possible result, and that political interference is not required. This defies the human reality that people are not commodities, and simply refuse to behave as if they were."
"We do not yet have a politics that is equal to the economics around us."
"History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting."
"To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense."
"Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society."
"The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be."
"Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails."
"Governments steer better than they row."
"Angry teachers can defeat governments,"
"We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set."
"Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct."
"The idea of politics is in need of defence."
"Politics is about the persuasion required to move people to judgement."
"If the rising tide fails to lift all boats, resentments will increase."
"Hezbollah has hugely populated that area, not only with people, but also with underground tunnels, with all the other activities that we associate with them, and with rocket launching facilities, and so on. So I don’t think anybody thinks that the 21-day ceasefire line, if you like, is going to be the line that will ultimately be acceptable to Israel. But we do need to figure out how to get the parties to a table and to begin to get serious efforts at mediation underway,” Rae said."
"It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life."
"We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own."
"The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness."
"Rational comprehension of the universe is not enough. We must call to our aid not merely reason, but the vision and the spiritual insight of the ages. These things we must seek."
"I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself."
"We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions."
"In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other."
"This visit "north of 60" was to complete what might be called at least a preliminary survey. I arrived here and realized that my survey had hardly begun."
"It is worthy of notice that many of this generation, fed on text-books, on anthologies and on abstracts, cannot read."
"The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots."
"The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age."
"Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands."
"We must pass through the barriers of language and race, of geography and religion, of custom and tradition and we must build on a common foundation."
"Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other."
"Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools"."
"In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!"
"How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!"
"Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours."
"History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness."
"It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?"
"On behalf of my countrymen, I join you in mourning the death of your distinguished predecessor, the former Governor-General. Canada has lost one of its most honored citizens and the United States, a valued friend. Vincent Massey was a wise and eloquent statesman, and we in the United States were especially honored by his service as the first Minister of Canada."
"It was Prime Minister Laurier who said of Canada's differing components: "I want the marble to remain the marble; I want the granite to remain the granite; I want the oak to remain the oak." This has been the Canadian way. As a result, Canadians have helped to teach the world, as Governor-General Massey once said, that the "toleration of differences is the measure of civilization." Today, more than ever before, we need to apply that understanding to the whole range of world affairs. And to begin with, we must apply it to our dealings with one another."
"I’ve been shaped by the people I’ve met along the way. I’ve had great role models and I’ve had great mentors and a little bit of good luck. Now as a leader in a political movement I want to pay that forward."
"Whenever we go into a pulp town I breathe deep and it reminds me of a positive time in my youth."
"My obligation is to the people of BC, and I will defend that until I am no longer premier."
"These are extraordinary events. Not measured before, not contemplated before. [the extreme weather events of 2021 will lead to a host of initiatives to help communities adapt in the future] but there was nothing, nothing that could have been done [to prepare for] a three-times-the-historic-high volume of water travelling through Merritt in one day."