20 Quotes by John Diefenbaker

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

You can’t stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

I’m disturbed because the doctors tell me I’m as sound as a dollar.

One moment it’s a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I’ve seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.