Quote of the Day/Week/Month/Year

[August1991]

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, 79, retired Soviet leader:

"In everyone's eyes, the elections turned into a mockery of the people and showed a deep disrespect for their voices," Gorbachev was quoted as saying in the opposition Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which he part-owns.

"The party of power gained the result it needed by discrediting political institutions and the very party itself," Gorbachev was quoted as saying.

Reuters

[capricorn]

David McGuinty, Liberal MP (Ottawa South), commenting to reporters on the Ethics Commissioner’s investigation of Conservative prop cheques.

“This is not a good day for Canadians. It's a bad thing to see this kind of expenditure. It's a bad thing to see this kind of - it's predictable. It's predictable. This all started some time ago with the birth of the Republican Party in Canada in Toronto under Mr. Harris and all of their advisors came up from the United States and New Jersey. They're still here now. They're practicing the same kinds of techniques, same approach. It's not a good day for Canada.”

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-22884-C...-David-McGuinty

Hmmm.....

[August1991]

Benoît Labonté, 49, ex-Special Assistant to Paul Martin and ex-Chief of Staff to John Manley:

"Est-ce qu'il y a un système mafieux qui gère la ville de Montréal? La réponse, c'est oui...(Ceux qui nous gouvernent) en savent probablement plus que moi."

Radio-Canada Edited October 22, 2009 by August1991

[capricorn]

On The O'Regan Files, a show hosted by Seamus O'Regan, Micheal Ignatieff said Toronto reminds him of Cleveland.

“rural Canada and remote Canada are among the parts of Canada that define us most clearly as Canada. I mean, Toronto can look a lot like Cleveland. But Cartwright, Labrador, looks like nowhere else on earth, right?”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/burea...article1335273/

There is a Cleveland in Quebec, pop. 1,564, so that would make it rural. So it's not that Cleveland.

http://ca.epodunk.com/profiles/quebec/cleveland/2000483.html

I guess he did mean Cleveland, Ohio. I wonder which American city he would compare to Montreal or to Vancouver. Maybe Seamus could ask him next time they meet.

[M.Dancer]

On The O'Regan Files, a show hosted by Seamus O'Regan, Micheal Ignatieff said Toronto reminds him of Cleveland.

“rural Canada and remote Canada are among the parts of Canada that define us most clearly as Canada. I mean, Toronto can look a lot like Cleveland. But Cartwright, Labrador, looks like nowhere else on earth, right?”

He's probably spent more time in Ohio that Toronto.

[Michael Hardner]

He's probably spent more time in Ohio that Toronto.

Wonder if he's ever been to Toronto, Ohio

Toronto is the 2nd largest city in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 5,676 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Toronto is known as the "Gem City", and regularly plays host to the Toronto Community Band and the resident brass ensemble called Gem City Brass.

Edited October 26, 2009 by Michael Hardner

[jbg]

“It’s going to be a holy war,” said Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah. (link) (discussing upcoming debate on health care in U.S. Senate.

[Oleg Bach]

By the time you are on your "third rum and coke" - instead of not giving a damn you should give more of a damn..I would safely say the person never gave a damn to begin with - drunk or sober.

[jbg]

By the time you are on your "third rum and coke" - instead of not giving a damn you should give more of a damn..I would safely say the person never gave a damn to begin with - drunk or sober.

Link? Or Oleg Bach quoting him/her/it-self?

[August1991]

Hugo Chavez, 55, president of Venezuela speaking at the Copenhagen conference on climate change:

"The rich countries of the north helped bankers, the big banks. I've forgotten the figure, but it's astronomical.

"What they're saying on the streets is that 'if the climate was a bank they would already have saved it'. I think it's true. If the climate was a capitalist bank, a capitalist bank, one of the biggest ones, they would have saved it."

The Times

[August1991]

Stephen Harper explains Canada's CO2 emissions policy:

"What will be most critical for Canada in terms of filling out the details of our regulatory framework will be the regulatory framework of the United States,” Mr. Harper said after the agreement was announced. “If the Americans don't act, it will severely limit our ability to act. But if the Americans do act, it is essential that we act in concert with them.”

G&M

I have to admire Harper's quote. "Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription."

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Barack Obama speaks to China's Premier Wen Jiabao:

“Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?” Mr. Obama said as he strode into the room.

G&M and The Guardian Edited December 19, 2009 by August1991

[capricorn]

Michael Ignatieff addresses students at Concordia University in Montreal on January 12.

"Our prosperity in years to come will be based on intellectual property, not natural resources," he told his Concordia audience. "The future of our prosperity lies between your ears."

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/Ignatieff+sets+sights+students/2434552/story.html

Is that a clue as to Ignatieff's burgeoning long term economic plan for the country?

[August1991]

Sen, Evan Bayh, 54, of Indiana analyzes the Republican Senate win in Massachusetts:

“There’s going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this,” Bayh told ABC News, but “if you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up.”

“It’s why moderates and independents even in a state as Democratic as Massachusetts just aren’t buying our message,” he said. “They just don’t believe the answers we are currently proposing are solving their problems. That’s something that has to be corrected.”

“The only we are able to govern successfully in this country is by liberals and progressives making common cause with independents and moderates,” Bayh said. “Whenever you have just the furthest left elements of the Dem party attempting to impose their will on the rest of the country -- that’s not going to work too well.”

ABC News

[capricorn]

"We have to have the courage to tell ourselves things we don't want to listen to. We have to listen to people that the party has not listened to. We have to open the doors and open the windows," Ignatieff said in a speech Wednesday to cap a two-day meeting here of the Liberal caucus.

"That is the process by which a great party earns — earns — the right to be the next government of Canada. We talk too easily within this party about being the natural party of government. If I can achieve one thing as a leader of this party, it's to get that out of our vocabulary."

http://www.canada.com/business/Liberals+should+stop+seeing+themselves+natural+governing+party+Ignatieff/2464684/story.html

[Oleg Bach]

Link? Or Oleg Bach quoting him/her/it-self?

I have become a bit of an IT lately.

[August1991]

Marc Garneau, MP:

«Les attaques de M.Duceppe sont excessives. Je ne suis pas d'accord avec beaucoup de choses que fait M.Paradis ou que son parti fait. Mais le Bloc doit arrêter de traiter de Québécois de service ceux qui ne sont pas d'accord avec lui. C'est vraiment honteux. Il est temps de changer de ton», a dit M.Garneau.

«Je tiens à dénoncer les propos de M.Duceppe et du Bloc. J'entends ce genre de propos tous les jours à la Chambre des communes. J'ai des nouvelles pour M.Duceppe. Les Québécois ont élu M.Paradis. Même si je ne suis pas d'accord avec beaucoup des politiques de son parti, il faut respecter le choix des Québécois. Cela fait partie de la démocratie. J'en ai soupé d'entendre Duceppe et le Bloc parler de cette façon de leurs adversaires», a ajouté le député libéral.

La Presse

[August1991]

Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, 84, retired PM of Malaysia speaking in Kuala Lumpur:

In September 2001, the World Trade Centre was attacked allegedly by terrorists. I am not sure now that Muslim terrorists carried out these attacks. There is strong evidence that the attacks were staged. If they can make Avatar, they can make anything, said Dr Mahathir during his speech at the General Conference for the Support of Al-Quds here. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

The Malaysian Insider

Even a retired PM of Malaysia thinks Avatar is a "good" movie.

Edited January 23, 2010 by August1991

[bloodyminded]

Well, if by "strong evidence" he means more or less zero, then he would be correct. A genius.

Edited January 25, 2010 by bloodyminded

[Oleg Bach]

9 11 was caused by the effects and side effects of in breeding. Those in power were simply so stupid they did not see it coming - nor where they capable of stopping something that was out of the ordinary . For God's sake - the terrorists took a chunk out of the Pentagon.. The most powerful military installation since history began..there is only one explaination for this failure - LACK OF INTELLIGENCE,

[August1991]

Rachel Uchitel, 34, alleged mistress of Tiger Woods, when discovering that she was speaking to his wife Elin Nordegren and not Woods:

Uchitel's surprised reply, according to what Nordegren told one source: "Oh f---." Uchitel immediately hung up.

Toronto Star

[BubberMiley]

I am so sick of hearing about Tiger Wood's sex life. Or, more accurately, sick of going out of my way to not hear about it.

[August1991]

I am so sick of hearing about Tiger Wood's sex life. Or, more accurately, sick of going out of my way to not hear about it.

Fair point.

IMV, the MSM's fascination is equal to the quote: '"Oh f---." Uchitel immediately hung up.' When I saw that, it struck me as a QOTD. Without knowing much about Uchitel (I had to google) or Woods, the quote is worthy because it is mundane.

[capricorn]

A thought by Michael Ignatieff on the World's impression about Vancouver.

"People are going discover we've always been an Asian country, facing out to Asia."

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=32532.html

Wow! Canada an Asian country. Where were my ancestors and I when the Pacific ocean disappeared?

[August1991]

Phil Jones, 58, climatologist at the University of East Anglia:

And he denied any attempt to influence climate data: "I have no agenda," he said.

"I'm a scientist trying to measure temperature. If I registered that the climate has been cooling I'd say so. But it hasn't until recently - and then barely at all. The trend is a warming trend."

BBC

[Michael Hardner]

Phil Jones, 58, climatologist at the University of East Anglia:BBC

Interesting. It seems more likely that they were disorganized and lazy than that there was an active conspiracy going on.