14 Quotes by Frank McKenna

If this was poker, we won the pot, and now the U.S. wants to negotiate with us over how to divide it. The time for negotiation has passed.

If that were the case, then why did you bring the appeal? ... Why did you carry it through? It's like playing a game of poker and if you lose the hand, saying well, let's negotiate the pie.

It is emotional, just because so many people seemed to hold such high hopes for me.

tremendous amount of response from police around the area.

We were right at it the weekend of the election getting ready to try to paper this thing, we were that close.

You can't carry out your appeal all the way to conclusion and then say when you lose, 'Well, that doesn't count,'

It wouldn't be right to return to the table and negotiate a formal agreement absent a tangible demonstration of respect for what Canada has accomplished in the quasi-judicial system.

After I finished in Washington . . . the idea of doing something full-time again became very attractive.

Your country is very close to my heart now. I, for one, will never forget the compassion expressed by Canadians in so many different ways.