Rick Mercer Quotes

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

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.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

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

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

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

It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.

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.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

America and Canada are the best friends. We've always been the best friends.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

Canadians want to know that our trade with the United States will continue and that we won't get into any kind of trade war with the United States.

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.

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.