Here are some of my favourite quotations from the campaign trail so far. I was planning trying to dig some up for all of the national party leaders, but that is proving difficult. Please comment with any gems you've heard!
This is just a small sampling, as almost everything I've heard from Stéphane Dion in his interviews with the media has been logical and inspiring. I'm sure there are lots more scathing remarks from the likes of Harper as well.
Stéphane Dion
"Nobody muzzles Janine Krieber; it's one of the reasons why I love her" - in response to the supposed media restrictions on his wife, also a political science professor.
On the Conservative's recent cuts to arts funding: "There is more culture in a container of yogurt than in this Conservative government."
Couldn't find an exact quotation of this one, but speaking about the fiscal merits of the Green Shift and Liberal platform, Dion said something like "Economists call this plan small-c conservative. I guess that's a compliment coming from an economist."
Stephen Harper
"I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people, you know, at a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren't high enough when they know those subsidies have actually gone up - I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people."
