Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
(n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent not merely these thirty-six states shall be sooner or later within the magic circle of the American union.
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.
Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.
The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.
When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
...my body has becomeanother countryand I feel like an unemployedillegal alienhow will I survivewhere I do not belongI belong with you
My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
One man out of every five who lands on our shores is a foreigner- i.e. non-Anglo-Saxon. He comes here with a foreign tongue foreign ideals foreign religion with centuries of ignorance and oppressio...
Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.
Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.
In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni.