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"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
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"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"
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"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."
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"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."
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"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."
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"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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"More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts."
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"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."
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"Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through-and very good lists they were-very well chosen, and very neatly arranged-sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen-I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now. But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories."
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"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
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"Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance."
Equality
"Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man."
Time
"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
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"I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future."
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"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around."
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"For too many, to work means having less income."
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"Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people."
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"For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy."
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