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Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. -- Tommy Douglas
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. -- Jean Charest
If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance. -- Neil Peart
Long live free Quebec! -- Charles de Gaulle
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec! -- Charles de Gaulle
Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow. -- James Wolfe
I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all. -- Xavier Dolan
New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec. -- Preston Manning
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else. -- Pierre Trudeau
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him. -- Willa Cather
I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se. -- Philippe Falardeau
Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward. -- Jean Chretien
The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City. -- Jean Chretien
There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism. -- Henri Bourassa
I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'd really love to go for a fourth trip into space with maybe Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Boisclair, and I am convinced, I am convinced that after such a trip, Quebec sovereignty will no longer be an issue. Space travel affects us that much. -- Marc Garneau
Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec. -- Jacques Villeneuve
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments. -- Wilfrid Laurier
We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear. -- Pauline Marois
Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army? -- Gilles Duceppe
My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary. -- Patrick Roy
I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec. -- Gilles Duceppe
The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada. -- Pauline Marois
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. -- Charlie Chaplin
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada. -- Jean Charest
We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity. -- Judy LaMarsh
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province. -- Maurice Duplessis
I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec. -- Lucien Bouchard
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. -- Richard Lamm
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. -- Kim Campbell
We don't want two-tier health care in Canada - one tier for Quebec and another tier for the rest of the country. -- Gordon Campbell
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films. -- Philippe Falardeau
They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead. -- Pat Burns
I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it. -- Michael Ignatieff
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. -- Gabrielle Roy
We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever. -- Jack Layton
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears. -- Will Ferguson
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me. -- Celine Dion
If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world. -- Shane Smith
Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both? -- Michael Ignatieff
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing. -- Margaret Atwood
Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice, -- Jean Chretien
There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.' -- Rudyard Kipling
I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America. -- Karine Vanasse
My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent. -- Pauline Marois
In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they are Muslims, practicing Muslims, they won't be accepted in Quebec society. -- Andre Pratte
In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal. -- Philippe Falardeau
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us. -- Richard Pound
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us. -- Richard Pound
I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two. -- Michael Ignatieff
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. -- Kim Campbell
Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature. -- C. S. Lewis
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
If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist. Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le QuÃ©bec, alors il ne mÃ©rite tout simplement pas d'exister. -- Pierre Bourgault
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful. -- Willard Boyle
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that. -- Jacques Parizeau
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. -- Sebastian Bach
At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting. -- Jean Chretien
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question. -- Gilles Duceppe
Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec. -- Dick Pound
So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?' -- Raekwon

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