Michael Kergin famous quotes

[Trudeau and Trump] have certain things in common: they both are celebrities. Both use social media in a very big way. Both scored a big upset.
-- Michael Kergin

#Media #Upset #Way

The rubber hits the road if Trump somehow turns his sights on Canada, as he has with Mexico, Australia and Germany, and takes some gratuitous comments on Canada's laxity on security or that Canada is not pulling its weight and has to do more in NATO, and so on. At that point, the pressure is on Trudeau politically, both from the media in Canada, from the opposition, maybe from his own party members, to shoot back.
-- Michael Kergin

#Party #Sight #Media

Trudeau has to defend Canadian interests and values. But he has to do it in a way that doesn't say that Trump is stupid or outrageous or completely xenophobic - staying away from the epithets, and restricting his comments to areas where there's either false information, fake news, alternative facts, etcetera, about Canada.
-- Michael Kergin

#Stupid #Fake #Etcetera

It is really really important that you deal with Trump either by letter or by personal contact. Trying to deal with him on telephones or through the media is not a good idea.
-- Michael Kergin

#Ideas #Media #Trying

Thirty-five states have Canada as their largest export market. Let's say we get into a trade war with the United States - hopefully not, but let's say. Many states in the union are going to have trouble and more costs getting their stuff up to Canada. If we make the border a little thicker in terms of tariffs, and hit back, that will start to impact the states, in particular large business interests that are in Canada. And that starts to put indirect pressure on the White House.
-- Michael Kergin

#War #Hopefully Not #White

Trudeau's not somebody's who's going to make strange faces if Trump says something rude. Trudeau's very aware of his personal image.
-- Michael Kergin

#Rude #Faces #Strange

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.