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