New Canadian Alphabet

Canada is hockey. - Mike Weir

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. - John W. Dawson

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. - Jack Layton

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun. - Unknown

If you call ham "Canadian bacon", what do you call bacon? - Michael Kelso

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada." - Jay Leno

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year. - Rachelle Lefevre

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. - Brian Mulroney

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser