52 Quotes by Rick Mercer

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

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.

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.

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.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

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.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

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.