{"id":3210,"date":"2011-12-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2011-12-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:00:00","slug":"2011-in-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"2011 in Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWell, I\u2019m an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear<\/em>.\u201d
–Michael Ignatieff <\/a><\/p>\n

“I mean we have the ridiculous thing of a government saying how much confidence they have in Bev Oda and she sits there like she\u2019s in some kind of a witness protection program<\/em>.”
–Bob Rae<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have debates in Parliament all the time. The Speaker rules, you win some, you lose some<\/em>.\u201d
–Stephen Harper<\/a>, on the contempt of Parliament ruling<\/p>\n

“This is not a hockey game. This is not a game here. This is democracy<\/em>.”
–Michael Ignatieff<\/a>, on the above<\/p>\n

“They all want to be in our bed, but no one wants to marry us<\/em>.”
–Gilles Duceppe<\/a><\/p>\n

“I don’t know why we’d need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.”
–Jack Layton<\/a><\/p>\n

“If you look across the country where the Conservatives have had strong representation, a lot of projects have taken place… But it’s normal that you’re going to focus on the areas with the people that do support you. That is part of political life<\/em>.”
–Larry Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m afraid Ms. Neville has passed her expiry date<\/em>.”
–Shelly Glover<\/a><\/p>\n

“Most of them are here<\/em>.”
\u2014Jack Layton<\/a>, on his vacationing candidates<\/p>\n

\u201cOpto Civitas. I choose civility. That\u2019s the new me<\/em>.\u201d
–Pat Martin<\/a><\/p>\n

“This is a fucking disgrace … closure again. And on the budget! There\u2019s not a democracy in the world that would tolerate this jackboot shit<\/em>.\u201d
–Pat Martin<\/a><\/p>\n

“Folklore has it, that the Canadian beaver will bite off its own testicles when it is threatened and offer them up to its tormentors. I think that is a fitting metaphor for the way our Canadian government reacts to bullying on trade issues by carving off pieces of our nation and offering them over to the Americans<\/em>.”
–Guess who<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMulticulturalism may be a Canadian value but it\u2019s not a Quebec one. We haven\u2019t signed the Constitution of Canada because it contains this notion of multiculturalism<\/em>.\u201d
–Louise Beaudoin<\/a>, PQ critic for secularism<\/p>\n

“That explains a lot of the challenges I have in my dating life<\/em>.\u201d
-Calgary Mayor Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi<\/a>, on the city’s growing gender gap<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/em>
–Jack Layton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWell, I\u2019m an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.\u201d–Michael Ignatieff “I mean we have the ridiculous thing of a government saying how much confidence they have in Bev Oda and she sits there like she\u2019s in some kind of a witness protection program.”–Bob Rae \u201cWe have debates in Parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}