JL

Jack Layton

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Quotes by Jack Layton

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I think Paul Martin doesn’t mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn’t do it.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here’s how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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When you’re sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card...
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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.
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Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it’s pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it’s your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.
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Well, I say it’s time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
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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.
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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.
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I don’t know why we’d need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
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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.
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