Rick Mercer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.
-- Rick Mercer

#Giving Up #Water #Down And
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
-- Rick Mercer

#People #Dying #World
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Weekend #Nuts #Long
The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!
-- Rick Mercer

#Giving #Canada #Allies
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Democracy #Complaining #Three
Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
-- Rick Mercer

#Government #Democracy #May
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#News #Wow #Canada
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Growing Up #Opposites #Political
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Kids #Get Better #Different
It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
-- Rick Mercer

#School #Brave New World #Years
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Government #Giving #Canada
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Party #Government #Would Be
I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
-- Rick Mercer

#Lucky #Current Events #Currents
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
-- Rick Mercer

#Party #Reality #Political
Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.
-- Rick Mercer

#School #Years #Worry
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Love You #Party #People
We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
-- Rick Mercer

#Change #Fun #Names
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#People #Risk #Host
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Support #Canada #Bleeding
Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.
-- Rick Mercer

#America #Bulls #These Days
I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.
-- Rick Mercer

#Gay #Work Out
I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.
-- Rick Mercer

#Believe #People #Pressure
I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.
-- Rick Mercer

#Thinking #Opportunity #Equal
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Night #Bed #Tomorrow
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.
-- Rick Mercer

#Men #Thinking #Years
A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.
-- Rick Mercer

#Annoyed #Important #Example
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.
-- Rick Mercer

#Stupid #Boys #Differences
I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.
-- Rick Mercer

#Real #Air #Organization
In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.
-- Rick Mercer

#Nurse #Canada #Causes

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