Rick Mercer Quotes

• Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

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• In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

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• I don’t believe in outing people. It’s up to the individual, but there’s nothing wrong putting the pressure on.

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• Here’s to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

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• I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

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• I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

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• Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we’re watching American news and we’re constantly saying, wow, it’s not as bad as it is in the United States.

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• The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there’s people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you’re throwing your vote away.

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• On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

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• I’m fortunate that I’m employed. And if you’re in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I’ll never, ever work again.

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• In Canada you grow up – we’re next to the United States. We’re watching whatever you’re watching. We’re following your news. It’s obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

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• It’s a brave new world. I’m 42 years old. I certainly wasn’t out in high school.

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• It’s no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it’s gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let’s go skydiving – I would say, no, are you nuts? I’d just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

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• And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it’s always been my position that we shouldn’t complain about that; that’s the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

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• And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

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• You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

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• Stephen Harper, who’s the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this – we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

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• And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it’s bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

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• I’m very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

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Rick Mercer (26)

Birth:	17th October, 1969
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Comedian, Political Strategist, Television Presenter

About

Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and blogger. Mercer first came to national attention in 1990, when he premiered his one man show Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa.

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