Jack Layton famous quotes

07-15-2025

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
-- Jack Layton

#Friendship #Family #Journey
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.
-- Jack Layton

#Government #Track #Support
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
-- Jack Layton

#Love #Inspirational #Hope
And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can beÂ a better one - a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.
-- Jack Layton

#Senior #Country #Children
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
-- Jack Layton

#Cancer #Journey #Gone
Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
-- Jack Layton

#Country #World #Canada
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And weâ€™ll change the world.
-- Jack Layton

#Optimistic #Hopeful #World
Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer.
-- Jack Layton

#Summer #Optimistic #Journey
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
-- Jack Layton

#Crooks #Needs #Prison
Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.
-- Jack Layton

#Might #Tone #Debate
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
-- Jack Layton

#Ideas #Differences #Democracy
Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
-- Jack Layton

#Harper #Wells
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
-- Jack Layton

#Moving Forward #Justice #Care
I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
-- Jack Layton

#Country #Believe #Affordable Housing
We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
-- Jack Layton

#Ideas #Challenges #Want
If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.
-- Jack Layton

#Country #Media #Years
When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card...
-- Jack Layton

#Health #Sick #Cards
Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
-- Jack Layton

#Parliament #Democrat
There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
-- Jack Layton

#Believe #Challenges #Climate
The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
-- Jack Layton

#Responsibility #Government #Criminals
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
-- Jack Layton

#Inspiration #Optimistic #Careers
I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.
-- Jack Layton

#Country #World #Want
You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.
-- Jack Layton

#Perfect #Waiting #Forever
Don't let them tell you it can't be done.
-- Jack Layton

#Done
If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
-- Jack Layton

#Heart #Ideas #Optimism
Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.
-- Jack Layton

#Dad #Thinking #People
Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime,
-- Jack Layton

#Dream #Lifetime

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