Quebec Quotes


Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Recognizing Quebec as being different recognizing our history recognizing our identity has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Long live free Quebec!

Long live Montreal Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

Gentlemen I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent than not be referred to at all.

New Canada must be workable without Quebec but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

Well I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada nowhere else.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697 Euclide Auclair the philosopher apothecary of Quebec stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad empty river far beneath him.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.

Quebec does not have Opinions but only sentiments.

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

I want my own country not against Canada but for Quebec.

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

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

From that moment on there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.

We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things but there was damned little reciprocity.

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

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

We don't want two-tier health care in Canada - one tier for Quebec and another tier for the rest of the country.

In Quebec we're less inhibited artistically culturally politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian speaking French is part of it.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada and stay Canadian bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee hands over bleeding ears.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec and every time I go to a country I say that. It's my roots my origins and it's the most important thing to me.

If you're big in Montreal you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York you're big in the rest of the world.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec and often there was no radio no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained I stayed inside reading writing drawing.

Ten years ago in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice

There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck When asked 'Are you Friz?' He replied 'Yes I is But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

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.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

I am an English-speaking Canadian but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec and if Quebec were to separate I would feel I had been cut in two.