Stephane Dion quotes

Stephane Dion quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability...”
-- Stephane Dion

#Country Quotes #Justice Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”
“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”
“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f^&k you're talking about.”
“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.”
“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”
“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”
“Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.”
“One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.”
“We often forget that growth requires sacrifice.”

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