Robert Bothwell Quotes

• We like to say medicare is uniquely Canadian, but Americans have Medicare too. Even the name. I can't actually determine where the name started, except that it appeared in the two countries at about the same time. Had the Vietnam War not occurred, the Americans would have had a Medicare system much like ours.

  Robert Bothwell

  Country, War, Medicare

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Siempre les decía a mis alumnos que Canadá no es necesariamente o inherentemente un país de izquierdas, y que Estados Unidos no es necesariamente la ciudadela de la libertad de derechas. El caso obvio es el New Deal de Franklin Roosevelt, que hizo que los estadounidenses se situaran mucho más a la izquierda que los canadienses de la época, y los estadounidenses que llegaban a Canadá nos encontraban atrasados, conservadores y fuera de sintonía con el tipo de liberalismo de espíritu libre que había en Estados Unidos. Luego las cosas se invirtieron, con el medicare como principal ejemplo.

  Robert Bothwell

  Country, Liberty, Conservative

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• You don't systematically disagree with the President of the United States or intervene in American politics and expect that he is going to bless your name.

  Robert Bothwell

  President, Bless, Disagree

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• We've never had to confront a really nationalistic American government since the War of 1812. But if it ever happened, it would be trouble for us. Such a government would be prepared to use trade as a club in dealing with us - one of many, if it decided to take American power out for a walk around the block. I don't mean military occupation or anything like that, but a desire for unquestioning adherence to whatever the nostrum of the day happened to be. That's rather scary. We've never had to deal with an American president who was completely a wing-nut.

  Robert Bothwell

  Block, Military, War

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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