Preston Manning Quotes

We want an independent Quebec within a strong and united Canada.

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

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

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

Quebec will secede from Canada and form an independent republic. The 3 prairie provinces--Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba--will likewise secede and become part of the U.S.

I don't expect my children to suffer much if Quebec should withdraw or Canada withdraw from Quebec. ... Yet it's been a lovely place to grow up in …

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

A real danger threatens the unity of the Canadian people and the preservation of its political existence. This danger is the slow but sure penetration of Americanism into all phases of our national, political, and social life.

A Canadian nationality—not French-Canadian, not British-Canadian, nor Irish-Canadian: patriotism rejects the prefix ... is what we should look forward to.

I am branded in Quebec as a traitor to the French, and in Ontario as a traitor to the English. In Quebec I am branded as a Jingo, and in Ontario as a separatist. In Quebec I am attacked is an imperialists, and in Ontario as an anti-imperialist. I am neither. I am a Canadian.

We [French Canadians] may not assimilate, we may not blend, but for all that we are still the component parts of the same country.

So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Levesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place

It's clear that the Green party loves Quebecers deeply. At the same time, we are Canadians!

They call me the Albertan of Quebec. It stuck.

I'm married to a Canadianm so I have a lot of fond thoughts about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba, where my wife is from, and I have a lot of friends and relatives on both coasts and have spent a lot time in Canada from Nova Scotia to B.C. In some ways, it's a much more sane country than the U.S.

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.

Canadian, adj. and n. An anti-American American.

Montreal is more Canadian and more British than Toronto. Toronto is more Canadian and more British than Winnipeg. Why? Because at Quebec thanks to the preponderance of the French language, you are better protected from the American invasion ...

The wounds of my country will heal after the troubles of anarchy and bloody revolution. The peaceful Canadian will see happiness and liberty on the St. Lawrence. Everything converges towards that end, even the executions; the blood and tears spilled on the altar of liberty today of watering the roots of the tree on which will fly the flag marked with the two stars of the Canadas.