Preston Manning Quotes

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

In many respects, my best friends were dogs.

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.