“We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 4, Sixty days of decision, p. 68
Speech in Paul Sauvé Arena, Montreal, Quebec, six days before the Quebec referendum on independence. (14 May 1980)
“We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 4, Sixty days of decision, p. 68
“Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family.”
When asked about learning French during the 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2018/11/28/doug-ford-discovers-the-franco-ontarians-he-never-knew.html
2018
“I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”
To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography http://books.google.com/books?id=lWcsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA392 (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.
1780s
Context: Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
Interview with Tidal Magazine, Issue 7 http://www.tidal-mag.com/magazine/girl-on-the-verge
1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
William Leith (January 25, 2003) "Dancing in the Dark: He was a baby when he got his first showbiz break in the 1940s, and then firmly schooled in the song-and-dance tradition. So how did Christopher Walken end up as a master of evil?", The Guardian.