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If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away. -- Stephen Harper
My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa. -- Paul Anka
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. -- Brian Mulroney
I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. -- Matthew Perry
What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto. -- Margaret Atwood
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles. -- Matthew Perry
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. -- Goldwin Smith
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. -- Tommy Douglas
On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament. -- John Allen Fraser
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! -- Maurice Duplessis
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. -- Kim Campbell
Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits. -- Bob Chiarelli
I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers. -- Allan Rock
With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited. -- Dany Heatley
The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812. -- Paul Hellyer
There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow. -- Alaine Chartrand
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. -- Jean Chretien
Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa. -- Justin Trudeau
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. -- Douglass North
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On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government. -- Lawrence R. Klein
I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa. -- Peter MacKay
I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up. -- Kaniehtiio Horn
While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room. -- Dan Hill
I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once. -- Michael Ignatieff
We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act. -- David Suzuki
Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada. -- Judy LaMarsh
Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta... -- Stephen Harper
The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now. -- Alaine Chartrand
We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy. -- Bob Chiarelli

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