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Jack Layton Quotes

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 18, 1950 - August 22, 2011

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Job Government Him Big Prime Sure

Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

People Someone Wish You Mouth Try

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.

Love Poetry Reading Think You Jazz

As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.

Life Father Children Feelings Want

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

People Me Moments Find Everything

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

Rudolph Valentino

Love Eyes Speak American Lips Say

There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.

Life Work Love Art Me Sadness

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

Hope Detail Decisions Worth Go Talk

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Car Children Time Spending Time

I still can't believe I'm the girl who got to play Fantine.

Girl Believe Play Got Still Who

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

Algernon Sidney

Men Performance Free Army Right May

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

Party Always Outsider Her Like Felt

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Nature Change Power Science Man

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