Rick Mercer Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“This is very interesting because 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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