Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.

Ottawa gives to foreigners, Duplessis gives to his province.

Larado and Neuvo Larado are not separated but are joined by a common border. 12 thousand trucks cross the border at Larado every day. People shop on both sides of the border. Families are on both sides. Putting up a fence will not work. Illegal aliens will tunnel under it and climb over it. I am going to go into the ladder business. You don’t turn your back on and separate yourself from your friends.

A lot of what you need to know about countries you can learn from open sources and by understanding the language and the culture.

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.

Most Americans think that Canada is a part of the United States—a chilly part.

The United States is destined to have a special relationship with Mexico as clear and as strong as we have had with Canada and Great Britain.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

When we have the red man's consent, let the union spread from the east to the west sea; and if Texas petitions Congress to be adopted among the sons of liberty, give her the right hand of fellowship; and refuse not the same friendly grip to Canada and Mexico.

The truth is that we want nothing so much as to be American. I for one would rather that we chucked it all and joined the United States and stop defying the law of politics and geography…. The reality is that Canadians are Americans already without many of the advantages.

In South America governments are being overthrown all the time. In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. Also what the Canadian government does doesn’t really matter very much. We’re much more affected by what happens in Washington or Moscow, than what happens in Ottawa.

The country itself is the best I have ever seen for producing all the products of Spain... But what I am sure of is that there is not any gold nor any other metal in all that country

Russia is a big country. It has a big bureaucracy.

You can't bring Saudi Arabia into Canada.

Canada is not so much a country as a continental suburb, where Little Leaguers govern ineffectually, desperate for American approval.

The oceans have shrunk, until today both Europe and Asia border the United States almost as do Canada and Mexico.

Today’s fear mongering about international crime frequently relies on dire warnings about “broken borders”. But those who claim that U. S. borders are out of control now forget that those borders were never effectively controlled in the first place. In fact, the United States has always had highly permeable borders. Border smuggling has defined the U. S. Mexican economic relationship from the start; the same is true of the U. S. Canadian relationship.

The United States is lucky: It has only two neighboring countries and oceans on both sides. We have over a dozen neighboring countries and we have a long and complicated history with them.

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.

Texas is made for trade.

I'd rather live in the U.S. than Europe.

I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I returned to Saskatchewan as - in my late teens.