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Jack Layton

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SEAN CASEY That doesn't seem right. Those are my minutes. I paid for them. You can't just take them away.
CLAUDIA VALAS I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other peop...
JONATHAN DEE I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO It's not on the radar screen right now; for the party, for Canadians.
DAN MCTEAGUE It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.
AARON MCGRUDER On balance, I've been trying to sell out my suburban properties. Strategically, for me and for Jack ...
FRANK KASS The taxpayers paid for this. Right now they're getting no economic value from it. Zero.
WILLIAM COHEN Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS Jack-This makes me feel like a man. Will-Yeah. Jack- No, seriously, I'm going to need a man after we...
WILL & GRACE Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
HANK AZARIA I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN You sit right next to me.
Still you don't seem close to me.
SHILLPI S BANERRJI Canadians, do not vomit on me!
ELIZABETH HARDWICK When other countries seem to be able to move forward in that area, I think Canadians expect to see t...
BOB RAE Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get scr...
MATTHEW GOODE I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.
TIMOTHY GARTON ASH I'm very proud that this particular flag is once again available for Canadians to ? maybe not so muc...
DAVID MONAHAN A load of cinematic effects that otherwise seem easy or cheap to me suddenly become difficult again....
LARS VON TRIER to disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable
BARRY M. GOLDWATER The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai...
SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.
FABIO BARBOSA Ever since that Jack Eigen kiss incident, people don't ask me for my autograph any more.
CLEO MOORE You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to kn...
TOM ROBBINS Two Canadians are dead and two innocent Canadians have the finger (of suspicion) pointed at them for...
CHERYL EVERALL So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Knowing better than anyone my own shortcomings, I undertake this task with humility and ask you all,...
ADRIENNE CLARKSON Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.
KAREN KAIN I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's ...
JACK LAYTON I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
JACK LAYTON We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who ha...
JACK LAYTON Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
JACK LAYTON To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please ...
JACK LAYTON Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure...
JACK LAYTON People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either beco...
JACK LAYTON The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the depa...
JACK LAYTON There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairn...
JACK LAYTON Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
JACK LAYTON Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic abou...
JACK LAYTON My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So...
JACK LAYTON A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and ...
JACK LAYTON My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So...
JACK LAYTON If you want a progressive (member of Parliament), a New Democrat, one who will fight for change, the...
JACK LAYTON If there is a government in Ottawa that doesn't share their values there is a possibility they could...
JACK LAYTON When will the prime minister finally stand up and tell George Bush Canadians have had enough with hi...
JACK LAYTON There is a culture in the Liberal party that is unacceptable in a democracy,
JACK LAYTON This avoids the holiday election that nobody wants,
JACK LAYTON the only leader in this House that will not compromise.
JACK LAYTON That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that...
JACK LAYTON The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my ...
JACK LAYTON They need a new community on higher ground,
JACK LAYTON We effectively have a monopoly in the sector, a very small number of very large companies that are s...
JACK LAYTON but unfortunately the Liberals said no.
JACK LAYTON As a result of the stubbornness of the Liberals and the inflexibility that we've seen, we will be st...
JACK LAYTON Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
JACK LAYTON You don't have to choose, on the one hand, a party that you really don't respect because they haven'...
JACK LAYTON This election is wide open because Canadians have a real, a positive and a progressive choice: the o...
JACK LAYTON I suggested a research project would be required and I guess we're in that research project. There a...
JACK LAYTON When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card. New Democrats will not stand...
JACK LAYTON I think it's shocking a lot of Canadians that after an election that was supposed to be about ethica...
JACK LAYTON We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Har...
JACK LAYTON This is not a budget that the New Democratic Party will be able to support.
JACK LAYTON They have to be dragged kicking and screaming and protesting into accepting that anything wrong coul...
JACK LAYTON This Parliament's life is likely limited.
JACK LAYTON Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as L...
JACK LAYTON Every member of Parliament has been sent there by Canadians, and that decision should be respected, ...
JACK LAYTON When you bring good ideas forward in the context of a Parliament where no one party has been given t...
JACK LAYTON It's not fair that prices have risen so quickly -- so rapidly -- because the product that is for sal...
JACK LAYTON Bono is no longer supporting the prime minister's position...niether are canadians.
JACK LAYTON We seem to have reached a serious and fundamental impasse,
JACK LAYTON What we need to do is stand up for ourselves when we're unfairly treated.
JACK LAYTON How can this Parliament continue under the leadership of a Liberal Party whose ethical conduct voter...
JACK LAYTON I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he d...
JACK LAYTON The report has shown there is a culture of greed in the Liberal Party,
JACK LAYTON There's going to be real change that comes from the people of this country who are tired of being pl...
JACK LAYTON Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
JACK LAYTON ROSE: I love you, Jack.

JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. ...
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON We seem to be observing an emerging mind-set where many Canadians do not see the need to retire thei...
DAVE RICHARDSON I told Jack that if he outperformed his contract we would work out a new deal, and both of those thi...
WAYNE WEAVER People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... For Canadians to take part in the rescue efforts is an extremely significant show of support, and th...
MARC ROY Steve meant the world to us. Jack said, 'It doesn't seem fair. Steve should have been able grow old ...
LINDA KNOUSE Canada is known as a great nation. But this is something that leaves a stain on the character of the...
PAUL MCCARTNEY I paid for this microphone.
DAVID BREWSTER We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD We now have a government that will be more sympathetic to a number of the issues of concern to evang...
BRUCE CLEMENGER You can still convince the Canadians that monitoring is necessary. And say the Canadians don't agree...
CHARLA NEUMAN Jack & Bobby ... Sometimes the greatest people can be seated right next to you.
BRAD MELTZER For me, having it all is being paid to write novels,
CANDACE BUSHNELL It really is up to Mr. Layton to decide how long he's prepared to support the Liberal Party and its ...
STEPHEN HARPER I paid good money for this.
TAYLOR DENT Remember William Cooper, he fought hard for what was right and paid the ultimate price. Let us never...
ENRIQUE VEGA The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertisin...
BARRY DILLER We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.
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JACK LAYTON It's not fair that prices have risen so quickly -- so rapidly -- because the product that is for sal...
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JACK CANFIELD If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
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JACK ZIPES The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ...
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JACK ZIPES What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th...
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JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE