New Canadian Alphabet

Canada was built on dead beavers. - Margaret Atwood

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. - Robin Williams

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. - Stockwell Day

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. - Mordecai Richler

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. - Paul Prudhomme

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

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

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. - Paula Poundstone

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy