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Ottawa Quotes By Gordon Lightfoot

Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said. — Gordon Lightfoot

Ottawa Quotes By Judy LaMarsh

Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada. — Judy LaMarsh

Ottawa Quotes By Bob Chiarelli

Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits. — Bob Chiarelli

Ottawa Quotes By Goldwin Smith

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. — Goldwin Smith

Ottawa Quotes By Dany Heatley

With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited. — Dany Heatley

Ottawa Quotes By Tommy Douglas

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas

Ottawa Quotes By Kim Campbell

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

Ottawa Quotes By Alaine Chartrand

There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow. — Alaine Chartrand

Ottawa Quotes By Thomas King

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that, if we buy into the notion of an impartial justice system, tribes and bands can be forced through a long, convoluted, and expensive process designed to wear us down and bankrupt our economies.
Be good. Play by our rules. Don't cause a disturbance. — Thomas King

Ottawa Quotes By Dan Hill

While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room. — Dan Hill

Ottawa Quotes By Michael Ignatieff

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once. — Michael Ignatieff

Ottawa Quotes By Arthur Hays Sulzberger

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Ottawa Quotes By John Allen Fraser

On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament. — John Allen Fraser

Ottawa Quotes By Anonymous

Stat Watch 67 words In a survey 91% of university staff members said they had been ignored, avoided, shut out of conversations, or treated as invisible during the previous year, according to a study led by Jane O'Reilly, of the University of Ottawa. Research shows that ostracism does more psychological harm and causes higher turnover than outright harassment, which is far less common. — Anonymous

Ottawa Quotes By Jean Chretien

It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. — Jean Chretien

Ottawa Quotes By Dany Heatley

When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more.
I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be. — Dany Heatley

Ottawa Quotes By Stephen Harper

Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan ... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax ... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts ... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health ... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta ... — Stephen Harper

Ottawa Quotes By Bob Chiarelli

We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy. — Bob Chiarelli

Ottawa Quotes By Lawrence Martin

The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for reporters. In Ottawa, there is no such daily access. The media doesn't demand it, and as a result, major powerbrokers remain virtually anonymous. — Lawrence Martin

Ottawa Quotes By Jim Gaffigan

While poutine is a dish unique to Eastern Canada (Montreal and Ottawa), the concoction of French fries covered in cheese curds and (for no apparent reason) gravy, clearly deciphers Canadian culture. First, heart-blocking poutine is the easiest explanation for Canada's adoption of universal health care coverage. I'm pretty sure I'm still digesting the poutine I had in May 2006. Poutine also serves as a sedative, making you so drowsy and serene you find yourself saying "a-boot" instead of "about." The extra pounds you immediately gain help shield you against the bitter climate. The irrational love of hockey still remains a mystery to me, but I'm convinced it has something to do with poutine. — Jim Gaffigan

Ottawa Quotes By Douglass North

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. — Douglass North

Ottawa Quotes By Lawrence R. Klein

On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government. — Lawrence R. Klein

Ottawa Quotes By Allan Rock

I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers. — Allan Rock

Ottawa Quotes By Margaret Atwood

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto. — Margaret Atwood

Ottawa Quotes By Brian Mulroney

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. — Brian Mulroney

Ottawa Quotes By Matthew Perry

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles. — Matthew Perry

Ottawa Quotes By Paul Hellyer

The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812. — Paul Hellyer

Ottawa Quotes By David Suzuki

We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act. — David Suzuki

Ottawa Quotes By Alice Munro

The problem, the only problem, is my mother. And she is the one of course that I am trying to get; it is to reach her that this whole journey has been undertaken. With what purpose? To mark her off, to describe, to illumine, to celebrate, to get rid of her; and it did not work, for she looms too close, just as she always did. She is heavy as always, she weighs everything down, and yet she is indistinct, her edges melt and flow. Which means she has stuck to me as close as ever and refused to fall away, and I could go on, and on, applying what skills I have, using what tricks I know, and it would always be the same. — Alice Munro

Ottawa Quotes By Terry Fallis

In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa's politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada's two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You're going to want to read this. — Terry Fallis

Ottawa Quotes By Duane Michals

You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin? — Duane Michals

Ottawa Quotes By Alaine Chartrand

The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now. — Alaine Chartrand

Ottawa Quotes By Kaniehtiio Horn

I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up. — Kaniehtiio Horn

Ottawa Quotes By Justin Trudeau

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa. — Justin Trudeau

Ottawa Quotes By Peter MacKay

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa. — Peter MacKay

Ottawa Quotes By Maurice Duplessis

Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! — Maurice Duplessis

Ottawa Quotes By Paul Anka

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa. — Paul Anka

Ottawa Quotes By Stephen Harper

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away. — Stephen Harper

Ottawa Quotes By Matthew Perry

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. — Matthew Perry