Aurele Marois Quotes

#1. I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois. - Author: Pauline Marois

#2. We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear. - Author: Pauline Marois

#3. We don't have to apologize for who we are - Author: Pauline Marois

#4. You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better. - Author: Pauline Marois

#5. You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality. - Author: Pauline Marois

#6. Sovereignty is as necessary as ever. - Author: Pauline Marois

#7. If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers. - Author: Pauline Marois

#8. I joined the PQ in the 1970s because of the issue of sovereignty. And that's why I wake up in the morning. A woman who gives birth to a country, that would be interesting. - Author: Pauline Marois

#9. We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. - Author: Pauline Marois

#10. I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready. - Author: Pauline Marois

#11. The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada. - Author: Pauline Marois

#12. My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent. - Author: Pauline Marois

#13. You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians. - Author: Pauline Marois

#14. The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers. - Author: Pauline Marois

#15. I can assure you the hemorrhaging has stopped. I asked remaining caucus members if they adhered to the party program, if they would stay in the PQ and that they would be by my side. They all said yes. - Author: Pauline Marois

#16. Let's stop being afraid ... to seem intolerant - Author: Pauline Marois

#17. Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman. - Author: Pauline Marois