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Out of near disaster, came real progress.
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Real
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Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.
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Distaste
Exception
Gun
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We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.
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Littles
Quebec
Sides
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Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.
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I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.
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Long
Two
Years
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One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.
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Jobs
Done
Undoing
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A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.
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Government
Long
People
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I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.
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Born
Genes
Has Beens
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The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.
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Book
Events
Names
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I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.
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Book
Names
Pension Plans
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Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.
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Canada
Moving
People
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Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.
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Jobs
Men
Dirty
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I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.
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Men
Leader
Pain
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Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.
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Loyal
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Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.
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Dream
Goal
Party
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Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.
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Country
Long
Views
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My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!
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Feelings
Racing
Want
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It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British, French, and American Politicians upon their retirement. But I have been criticized before and I expect to be again.
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Practice
Retirement
Writing
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I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.
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Government
Country
Political
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One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.
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Age
Battle
Years
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Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.
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Country
Military
Two
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I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.
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Impact
Mother
Practice
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It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications for election to the House of Commons or appointment to the Senate, but maybe it will have to come to this as a price we must pay for equality of the two great language groups of our founding fathers.
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Government
Father
Two
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