Quebec Quotes · Page 2

From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.

— Jean Charest

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

— Pauline Marois

We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always…

— Robert Lepage

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

— Kim Campbell

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec…

— Jane Jacobs

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

— Lucien Bouchard

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is…

— Pauline Marois

New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

— Preston Manning

I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money… In fact, these…

— Henry David Thoreau

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot…

— Margaret Atwood

I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec,…

— Michael Ignatieff

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or…

— Michael Ignatieff

I always remind Quebecers: hey, wait a minute - federalism works. If you look at the fiscal arrangements, the economic arrangements, the…

— Philippe Couillard

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but…

— Henri Bourassa

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap…

— Willa Cather

Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so…

— Jane Jacobs

We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses…

— Philippe Falardeau

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we…

— Philippe Falardeau

Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and…

— Harry S. Truman

In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not…

— Sandra Steingraber

Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions…

— Henry David Thoreau

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's…

— Tommy Douglas

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

— Maurice Duplessis

In Quebec, our goal isn't to reduce daycare service - a program the entire world envies - but to make it viable…

— Philippe Couillard

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

— Richard Lamm

There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec.

— Pierre Moreau

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

I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.

— Xavier Dolan

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…

— Celine Dion

Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.

— Philippe Couillard

There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied,…

— Rudyard Kipling

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

— Pierre Bourgault

We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

— Philippe Couillard

“Amanda meant to move, but somehow her feet didn't do anything. They were like Quebec, determined to be independent.”

— Erin McCarthy

We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.

— Judy LaMarsh

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is…

— Michael Ignatieff

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…

— Neil Peart

The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our…

— Jean Chretien

I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes…

— Karine Vanasse

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done…

— Martin Villeneuve