31 quotes found
"As long as my colleagues and I have anything to do with the government of this province, we will see to it that Alberta continues to lead the world in the great fight to secure for every man, woman and child complete and permanent freedom from fear and worry and from social and economic insecurity."
"Edmonton isn’t really the end of the world – although you can see it from there."
"[Edmonton is a] fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes."
"I’ve been to Vulcan where I’ve been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley’s invited me to Castor … and I’m not looking forward to it."
"The government should be getting out of the business of being in business."
"This all came about through the discovery of a single, isolated case of mad cow disease in one Alberta cow on May 20. The farmer — I think he was a Louisiana fish farmer who knew nothing about cattle ranching. I guess any self-respecting rancher would have shot, shovelled and shut up, but he didn’t do that. Instead he took it to an abattoir and it was discovered after testing in both Winnipeg and the U.K. that this older cow had mad cow disease."
"I wasn't surprised that she crossed over to the Liberals. I don't think she ever did have a Conservative bone in her body. Well, maybe one."
"I’m no doctor, but I think that Mr. McGuinty’s got a case of premature speculation."
"You know, my science is limited to the fact that I know that eons ago there was an ice age … I know that for sure. I know that at one time, the Arctic was the tropics. And I guess I wonder what caused that? Was it dinosaur farts? I don’t know."
"There’s an old saying in politics: anyone dumb enough to run for the job probably is too stupid to have it."
"I have some hopes for the future. One of the things I hope the new leader will address is an integrated energy policy, because we need to take advantage of the tremendous brainpower that we have amassed over the years relative to conventional and oil-sands oil and gas, and funnel those energies into alternate forms of energy for the future. By that I mean coal, coal gasification, coalbed methane, solar power, wind power, nuclear power, hydro power, all forms of energy other than conventional and oil-sands gas and oil."
"We can't win this province back - we can't be the government - with a smoking, drinking, paving, glad-handing premier."
"The decline in natural-gas revenues has been dramatic and the degree to which we are dependent on oil revenues, it is time for us to consider an increase in corporate and personal tax."
"My parents taught me that an NDPer in Alberta has to work three times harder than any other politician to earn votes. It's a lesson I won't forget."
"Tonight, I also want to say that I'm also thinking about my mother and father. I know my mother would be completely over the moon about this. I think my dad would too. I'm sorry he couldn't see this. This really was his life’s work but I can say this: I know how proud he'd be of the province we all love."
"I became president of the pro-life group in my campus and helped to lead an ultimately successful initiative petition, which led to a referendum which overturned the first gay spousal law in North America."
"Nowhere in any of the principal human rights statutes of the world is there to be found a grounding for so-called same sex marriage"
"The fact is homosexuals aren’t banned from marrying under Canadian law. Marriage is open to everyone, as long as they’re a man and a woman. It doesn’t say you can’t marry if you’re a homosexual. The fact is that homosexuals have been married and do marry."
"There has been no media coverage of D Suzuki's extreme anti-immigration views.What would happen if a prominent conservative said same thing?"
"Suzuki’s extreme comments reveal how offside he is with Canadians"
"At that one very public moment, of a very public declaration of one’s loyalty to one’s fellow citizens and country, one should do so openly, proudly and publicly, without one’s face hidden."
"Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language."
"I don’t think it’s right to keep secrets from parents about challenges their kids are going through."
"We’re not climate deniers, we’re climate tax deniers."
"I know Justin. He doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing. This guy is an empty trust-fund millionaire who has the political depth of a finger bowl. He can’t read a briefing note longer than a cocktail napkin, O.K."
"We cannot continue indefinitely to impair the social and economic — as well as the mental health and physiological health of the broader population — for potentially a year for an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the elderly and the immunocompromised."
"I don't accept the Alberta bashing that is going on here."
"[Canada] is an imperfect country, but it is still a great country, just as John A. Macdonald was an imperfect man but was still a great leader."
"Every student deserves a quality education in a school that can meet their learning needs and set them on a path to success in the future"
"When you get elected, you have to make some tough decisions. And what we’re doing is we’re being honest with Albertans about the things we need to do"
"We’re identifying problems and we’re fixing them. It takes a little bit of time to address all of the problems, but look, I didn’t create them. I’m just here to solve them. And so, I’m looking forward to continuing to hear feedback from Albertans"