Farley Mowat Quotes

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.

No man ever exercised less influence in the Senate or the House of Representatives than he, but no man ever exercised more power as a political leader.

I want to become prime minister.

Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist's delight.

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

Hillary Clinton will be a disaster for our country, a disaster in so many other ways.

I want to be influential as a legislator.

I'm a man with a great political future behind me.

I have no political aspiration.

My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?

Sen. Sessions' commitment to public service is nearly unparalleled in Alabama history, and his departure from the Senate leaves tremendous shoes to fill.

My father was the prime minister and we had Tamil Nadu's support.

My mother once used to be a Congress leader.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.