American Quote by Mike Myers

Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are.

— Gord Downie

The core of who I am is Canadian.

— Alvin Leung

Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view…

— Joseph Boyden

If you want to know what being Canadian is, it's being part of the human race, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, which has been…

— Gord Downie

Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.

— Judith Merril

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

— Mordecai Richler

It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

— Douglas Coupland

You can't be Canadian without being aware of at least one other country, the United States, 'cause it's so important to us. I think…

— Justin Trudeau

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

— Shane Smith

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by…

— Timothy Garton Ash

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

— David Cronenberg

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand…

— Winston Churchill