Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
John Ralston SaulCanada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
John Ralston SaulThe citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
John Ralston Saul