J Layton Quotes & Sayings

When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card ... — Jack Layton

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart. — Jack Layton

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats. — Jack Layton

You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have. — Jack Layton

You do not have opportunities for influence by accident. God-given opportunities bring God-intended responsibilities. Do all the good you can wherever God puts you. Apply this to your situation among family members, your neighbors, and your coworkers. — Layton Talbert

Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton

her the legal authority — Deborah S. Layton

Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I. — Jack Layton

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important. — Jack Layton

Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate. — Jack Layton

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. — Jack Layton

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. — Irving Layton

Death is a name for beauty not in use. — Irving Layton

To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son. — Irving Layton

Don't let them tell you it can't be done. — Jack Layton

I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it. — Jack Layton

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live. — Irving Layton

Remember when I told you I knew about you? You interrupted me. I wasn't going to say I sympathized with you; I was going to say I didn't give a damn. Life is hard for everyone, some more than others. But the damage you cause to other people, that's on you. Your pain has made you into a monster. — Layton Green

I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity. — Jack Layton

Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime, — Jack Layton

The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado. — Yvon Chouinard

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world. — Jack Layton

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate. — Jack Layton

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government. — Jack Layton

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. — Jack Layton

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. — Jack Layton

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell. — Irving Layton

I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress. — Jack Layton

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry. — Irving Layton