Quotes of the week

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It’s not completely a joke to say Fort McMurray is the second-largest city in Newfoundland.

Philip Cross, Statistics Canada, on the phenomenon of so many Newfoundlanders working in the oil sands of Northern Alberta

It still felt like the quality Wall Street Journal that I’m used to, just more in the USA Today size.

Scott Daly, advertising purchaser, on major redesigns of the iconic US newspaper, which include trimming three inches from its width

The US dollar’s tone is decidedly negative. It feels as if the market is looking for virtually any excuse to sell dollars.

Peter Frank, currency speculator at ABN Amro

This is nothing against Oprah, but I think we need real thinkers who are going to challenge us, not who are going to entertain us, not who are going to make us laugh or cry.

Walter Mosley, novelist

How does it feel to be having this kind of fun?

CTV reporter to Stephane Dion during the Montreal convention

My favorite part of an order of onion rings is the free French fry.

Jared Logan, US comic

If I were an average Iraqi obviously I would make the same comparison—that they had a dictator who was brutal, but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother or father worrying, 'Am I going to see my child again?’

Kofi Annan, out-going US Secretary General, on life after Hussein

We invite anyone who is concerned to bring the whole family, enjoy some holiday cheer, and join us in demanding that all levels of government take action now.

Donald Gordon, spokesperson for group planning a December 10 afternoon party on Kits Beach to protest Premier Gordon Campbell’s plans to proceed with coal-fired electricity generating plants in BC

Take it up with God.

Joshua Thompson, on a television interview after it was learned a Church had given him a home after Hurricane Katrina which he promptly flipped for a personal $13,000 profit

We were not defeated on our policies but on our integrity, and integrity, like virginity, is hard to get back.

Jean Lapierre, former Liberal cabinet minister

Canadians have a deep concern about the main issue of our time: building a sustainable environment for our children to inherit.

Stephane Dion

We will expose the shortsighted Tory agenda for what it is: trinkets picked up at the Republican discount store.

Gerard Kennedy, Liberal leadership contender

This is another defeat for the devil who wants to dominate the world.

Hugo Chavez, after winning another election as president of Venezuela

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