Kim Campbell Quotes

• Charisma without substance is a dangerous thing.

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• I know Quebecers don’t want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.

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• I’d be prouder still to say I was Canada’s 10th woman prime minister.

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• In all modesty, we must admit that cccdoctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

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• It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.

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• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

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• Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

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• Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

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• Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard’s latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.

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• The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

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• There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

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• We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

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• We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

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• An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.

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• Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

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• Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

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• Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

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• For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

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• For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal’s economy.

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Kim Campbell (27)

Birth:	10th March, 1947
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician, Professor, Writer

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