It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

- Rick Mercer

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

- Rick Mercer

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

- Rick Mercer

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

- Rick Mercer

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain …

- Rick Mercer

When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than…

- Rick Mercer

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that o…

- Rick Mercer

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 te…

- Rick Mercer

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

- Rick Mercer