Canadian Politics/Quotes

"I hate politics, and what are considered their appropriate methods. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of that is apparently the necessary incident of politics – except doing public work to the best of my ability."

—John Abbott, Leader of the Government in the Senate, June 4, 1891 - twelve days before becoming Prime Minister of Canada, a position he held for 18 months.

"Even as a kid, I don't think I bought into a lot of the mythology about Canada. And certainly not a lot of what's called stagecraft that's in politics now, that sort of permanent campaign. That doesn't seem to represent what we're about."

—Gord Downie, Gord Downie's revealing CBC interview, October 9, 2012

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