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Mais j'ai confiance qu'un jour... y'a un rendez-vous normal avec l'Histoire que le Québec tiendra, et j'ai confiance qu'on sera là, ensemble, pour y assister.
Concession speech, 1980 Quebec referendum.
“I confidently expect that we shall continue to be grouped with mothers-in-law and Wigan Pier as one of the recognized objects of ridicule.”
On the civil service, in Portrait of a Profession: The Civil Service Tradition (1950)
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Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)
“Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both. ”