Canadian Quotes

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

All war aims for impunity.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

Umpires are necessary evils.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.

Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.