Judy LaMarsh Quotes

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.

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

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

French people are strange about America, I think.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

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.

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 …

Traitor? Traitor to what? My country is Quebec!

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 ...

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

Ottawa gives to foreigners, Duplessis gives to his province.

Quebec is the Western world's last colonial nation.

English-speaking Canada, far from stifling Quebec, has acted...as a committed partner, a buffer, shielding its culture from the rest of an English-speaking continent that Quebecers perceive as a threatening force.

For the Americans, it is not attractive to hear what the similarities are between them and the Iranian people. It is attractive to hear how different the Iranians are.

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

There are distinctions between Indian and Pakistani writers.

People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe that the other parts of America couldn't possibly be as American as their part. You can see it in the way people in the South scrunch up their faces when they hear words like 'New York,' 'Chicago,' and 'challah.'

They're strange, the Aussies. Because if they like you, they say, 'Oh, he's an Aussie.' And I keep saying, 'I'm not, I'm from Preston.' There's nothing Australian about me. Don't start claiming me just because I've got a job over here.

When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

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

Long live free Quebec!