Marois Quotes & Sayings

Let's stop being afraid ... to seem intolerant — Pauline Marois

We don't have to apologize for who we are — Pauline Marois

One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians ... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office. — Pauline Marois

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

Weary of knowing too much and understanding too little. — Kate Morton

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control. — Erika Christensen

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. — Pauline Marois

I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois. — Pauline Marois

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers. — Pauline Marois

I don't want to replace anyone, especially Charlie Sheen. — John Stamos

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy ... Well that's a myth. — Pauline Marois

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear. — Pauline Marois

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started. — Ron Fournier

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success. — Pauline Marois

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready. — Pauline Marois

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive. — Andrew Eldritch

The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada. — Pauline Marois

I can assure you the hemorrhaging has stopped. I asked remaining caucus members if they adhered to the party program, if they would stay in the PQ and that they would be by my side. They all said yes. — Pauline Marois

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

Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed. — Lettie Cowman

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction. — Pauline Marois

No one can buy me. It allows me to devote myself completely to what I do. Knowing that I'm comfortable removes a big burden off my shoulders. — Pauline Marois

The Light of Love Each shining light above us Has its own peculiar grace; But every light of heaven Is in my darling's face. For it is like the sunlight, So strong and pure and warm, That folds all good and happy things, And guards from gloom and harm. And it is like the moonlight, So holy and so calm; The rapt peace of a summer night, When soft winds die in balm. And it is like the starlight; For, love her as I may, She dwells still lofty and serene In mystery far away. — John Hay

You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better. — Pauline Marois

That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers. — Pauline Marois

You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality. — Pauline Marois

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party. — Pauline Marois

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted. — Pauline Marois

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever. — Pauline Marois

You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians. — Pauline Marois

The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers. — Pauline Marois

For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers. — Jim Wickwire

I joined the PQ in the 1970s because of the issue of sovereignty. And that's why I wake up in the morning. A woman who gives birth to a country, that would be interesting. — Pauline Marois

We want a country. and we will get it, our country. — Pauline Marois

Most of the Marois Bay scenery is simply made as a setting for the nursing of a wounded heart. The cliffs are a sombre indigo, sinister and forbidding; and even on the finest days the sea has a curious sullen look. You have only to get away from the crowd near the bathing-machines and reach one of these small coves and get your book against a rock and your pipe well alight, and you can simply wallow in misery. I have done it myself. — P.G. Wodehouse