A look back at some of the more memorable quotes of the year…and a poll for you to vote on your favourite!<\/p>\n
“I’m eating my cookie<\/em>“ “And so I have people touching my private parts all day long.”<\/em> “I have no plans to leave. I have made no plans to leave. I have no plans to make plans to leave. Can I be any more clear?”<\/em> “I am pleased to talk about the Liberals’ record on foreign takeovers. I think they had a foreign takeover of the Liberal party just last year.”<\/em> “Allow me therefore to be categorical \u2026 To leave no question and no doubt: I am not a pirate! I have no sword. No flintlock. No eye patch. This glass is filled with water, not rum. The only squawking parrot I know is Pierre Poilievre. And I would never let him sit on my shoulder.”<\/em> “Stephen Harper learned early in his career that patronage is the K-Y Jelly of politics.”<\/em> “Canada suddenly knows how to correctly pronounce Toews.”<\/em> “Actually the Long Form is still around & will be going to more Cdns\u2013minus the state coercion”<\/em> “The appointment of David Johnston as Canada’s next Governor General is a historic breakthrough. You, like us, have no doubt seen the federal career ads where, written in invisible ink, are the words, ‘white men need not apply’.”<\/em> “Losers don’t get to form coalitions.”<\/em> “You guys used to be so cool. You were smokers. You had epic hockey fights. We had half our comedians from Canada. Now you’re all a bunch of girls named Francois.”<\/em> “They could have Tweeted the Throne Speech, and still had twelve characters left over.”<\/em> “Every time Mr. Harper gets within a mile of Canadian military equipment, he takes a swipe at the Liberal Party. It\u2019s like Pavlov\u2019s dog.”<\/em> “It\u2019s kind of interesting that it\u2019s like a civics lesson for the whole country, because we\u2019re learning about how Parliament works which I think is a good thing in the long run.”<\/em> “I’ve heard some of the allegations made by someone by the name of Tom Flanagan. I don’t know who he is.” \u201cAs you know, as part of our economic action plan, one of the things we\u2019ve of course done is to step up government advertising. One of the purposes of that has been to support media outlets during the recession that have been particularly hard-hit.\u201d<\/em> \u201cDemocracy and Parliament are not being sidestepped \u2014 they are only being suspended.\u201d<\/em> Now’s your turn to vote on the most memorable quote of 2010 – use whatever criteria you want to make your selection. You can vote for multiple quotes, and come back and vote again each day (if, you know, you have nothing better to do over the holidays).<\/p>\n
-Alberta Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett, on why he wouldn’t answer reporter questions<\/p>\n
-Michael Ignatieff, on airport security<\/p>\n
-Peter McKay, on his political future<\/p>\n
-John Baird<\/p>\n
-Ralph Goodale<\/p>\n
-Pat Martin (who else?)<\/p>\n
-Vic Toews, after the Blackhawks Stanley Cup win<\/p>\n
-Tony Clement, explaining his decision to scrap the Census, over Twitter<\/p>\n
-The Ottawa Sun in a (we guess) serious editorial<\/p>\n
-Stephen Harper<\/p>\n
-Ann Coulter, on Canada<\/p>\n
-Marlene Jennings<\/p>\n
-Michael Ignatieff<\/p>\n
-Conservative MP Barry Devolin, on the benefits of prorogation<\/p>\n
-Shelly Glover<\/p>\n
\u2013 Stephen Harper, on government advertising<\/p>\n
-Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber, on prorogation<\/p>\n