Joe Clark Quotes

Canada, Statesman
June 5, 1939

Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, PC CC AOE (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian elder statesman, businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980.

Also known as Businessman, Writer, Politician

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark
- Life
- Respect
'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Joe Clark
- Bad
- Training

I do more than reflect and respect this country, I fight for it...the question for Canadians is 'Can we win?' Yes, we can win except when we are fighting ourselves.

Joe Clark
- Country
- Respect
- Question
It has been my ironic lot to be seen as both a statesman and a scrapper. The statesman is the more respectable reputation. But the scrapper is what these last four years have required.

Joe Clark
- Ironic
The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.

Joe Clark
- People
- World
- Real
We will not take this nation by storm or by stealth or by surprise. We will win it by work.

Joe Clark
- Work
- Storm
There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

Joe Clark
Mr. Speaker, as I was saying on November 27, 1979, before I was so rudely interrupted...

Joe Clark
- November

You will know that in our most recent skirmishes, I won some debating points and he won another general election.

Joe Clark