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Quotes Took the Road Less Traveled, And That Made All the Difference

Those Who Would Trade Their Privacy For Security Deserve You


“I think that privacy rights are extremely important, but Canadians also want their government to act on their behalf in protecting their safety and security.”

– Privacy Commissioner nominee Daniel Therrien


Actually, She Was Jewish, So, By The Law Of Associative Race Baiting, She’s Allowed


“We’re all fucking hypocrites. That’s what I think about it. The policewoman who arrested him has never used the word nigger or that fucking Jew? …It’s the hypocrisy of it that drives me crazy…”

– Gary Oldman, defending Mel Gibson’s drunken anti-Jewish tirade


Ahhhh – A Challenge!


“Oh, I’ve never heard one that I didn’t like. It amazes me.”

– Gordon Lightfoot talking about covers of his songs


Whose Fantasies Are You Articulating, Exactly, Gavin?


“White liberal nerds love this guy so much, he could defecate on them like Martin Bashir’s fantasies and they would dance in the streets.”

Vice magazine co-founder Gavin McInnes on Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson


I’ll Bet You Don’t Want To Reinstate The Stocks For Their Owners, Either – Honestly, Business Associations Are No Fun!


“Let’s not tar and feather every employer in Canada as a result [of some breaking the rules].”

– Canadian Federation of Independent Business on the Conservative government’s announced changes to tighten up the temporary foreign worker programme


My Intention Was To Caricature Jews Within A Context Of Everyday Life


“I acknowledge how the costume could, within a context of stereotyping, be ascribed to a Jewish caricature. I am here to say that it was absolutely not my intention.”

– Rapper Macklemore


1. You Broke It, Somebody Else Buys It
2. Unlike President Bush, Who Took All The Warnings Against Getting This Ball Rolling Seriously?
3. Would You Use This Reasoning If You Cheated On Your Wi – Okay, You Probably Would, But Do You Really Think She Wouldn’t Insist You Move To A Motel?


“It’s a disaster unfortunately made possible, certainly made more likely by our ridiculous and total withdrawal from Iraq in 2011.”

– Bill Kristol, major cheerleader for the Iraq War, on ABC’s This Week

“The president didn’t take seriously the warnings of what would happen if we withdrew and he liked the political benefits of being able to say that we’re completely out.”


– Douglas Feith, one of the architects of the Iraq War, quoted in Politico

Past decisions are “irrelevant to the circumstances we face now.”


– John Bolton, explaining on Fox News why his gung-ho support for the Iraq War 10 years ago has nothing to do with the problems Iraq is facing today


And, He Makes His Living With Words!


“To amend Andy Warhol, who said, ‘In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.’ I think in the future, which is now, everyone will be famous all the time.”

– Bruce Wagner


Then Again, Some People Are Eager To Prove Gary Oldman Right


“Now, let me be blunt: Michelle Obama, the product of lifelong affirmative-action coddling, is an intellectual lightweight who fancies herself a serious thinker. Just read her Princeton senior thesis, an intermittently coherent stream-of-consciousness pile of leftist jargon, campus pseudo-seriousness, and racial-identity babble. Can there be any doubt that the Princeton administrators accepted it only because of her skin color?”

– economist Ben Zycher, the man who helped Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak with the math on his promise to create a million jobs


Are You Still Alive?

Wait. That Didn’t Come Out Right. I Just Meant That I Hadn’t Seen You In A While, And I Was Hoping…

That’s Worse, Isn’t It? They Tell You In Headline Writing School That You Should Always Go With Your First Instinct – Damn! Guess I Just Proved The Wisdom Of THAT Rule!


“I promise you: no American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer.”

– Ann Coulter


Such Colourful Language! Still, Are You Sure That’s The Right Word? I Think You Meant: “It Certainly John Hughes Tightly To Teen Flick Conventions”


“But that’s what spectators do in Josh Boone’s super-sticky, tissue-shredding adaptation of John Green’s young-adult bestseller The Fault in Our Stars and, while it may not conform to one’s real-life expectations, it certainly hues tightly to teen-flick conventions.”

– Geoff Pevere’s review in The Globe and Mail


Funny, Because At One Time Or Another We’ve All Said That About You, Too


“I said some things that were poorly considered and once I had seen it in print I could see that it was offensive, insensitive, pernicious and ill-informed.”

– Gary Oldman, on his defense of Mel Gibson


We Care About Shareholder Value.
We Care About Our CEO’s Rank Among The Richest People In The Country.
We Care About Growing Our Market Share.
What Else Is There?


“It’s in our nature to care.”

– tag line for a Telus ad


You Can Be Racist About People Who Run In Marathons. You Can Be Racist Against People Whose Brains Move Too Quickly. Just About The Only Thing You Can’t Be Racist About Is People Of Other Races…


“You can be racist against people that eat little red apples. You can be racist against people that have a drinking problem. You can be racist against people that are too fat.”

– Doug Ford, claiming that his brother, Mayor Rob, is the victim here


Okay, Love The Enthusiasm For Democracy, Might Want To Tone Down The Misogyny A Bit…


“If [Communists] try to kill and intimidate our workers…I will not spare them. I will let loose my men to rape your women.”

– Indian lawmaker Tapas Pal, on his electoral opponents


Okay, Yeah, Sensing A Disturbing Pattern, Here…


“[B]oys will be boys.”

– Indian socialist Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav espouses a theory of sentencing men for rape


You’re A Couple Of Thousand Years Too Late, But Thanks For The Thought


Both sides must act quickly “to prevent an atmosphere of revenge and retribution.”

– President Obama advises Israel and the Palestinians after three children of the former and one of the latter were murdered


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