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Up to three billion sets of eyes will be focused on that torch as it crosses your country and your province and enters the stadium. Gordon Campbell, premier of British Columbia, on the 2010 Olympics torch ceremony
Apparently, Parliament can go out and malign people and say whatever they want, denounce this person, denounce that person, and nobody can go back at them. Tom George, husband of Barbara George, RCMP deputy commissioner, after a Parliamentary committee recommended finding George in contempt of Parliament for being untruthful about RCMP pensions
I may be skinny, but I’m tough too. Barack Obama, US Democratic Party leadership hopeful
Once you work on one Olympics, it becomes a heady adrenalin. Sam Sullivan, Mayor of Vancouver
People say, ‘Oh they are just a bunch of jokers.’ But we were as serious as a heart attack—contrary to the popular belief that we were out partying at the Olympics. Devon Harris, member of 1988 Jamaican Bobsled team
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