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“You see, working-class people have no confidence.” Houle said in his quiet, straightforward way. “It just takes a while to get some.” … “I was lucky … no, not lucky, lucky’s a funny word, eh? … I was given the chance to prove I was good enough.”

“I simply want to do it right; I want to do it in such a way that years from now, when I forget it has nothing to do with going out on top, I will feel no regret and others will feel none for me.”
PQ Pequistes 1980s election

“We are a team that has gone one step further — we know there are differences, we just don’t think they are that important”

P.53

“To realize winning is the central card in a house of cards, and that without it, or with less of it, motivations that seemed pure and clear go cloudy… There is something remarkably strong about a team that wins; and something remarkably weak about a team who doesn’t.”

“The team that won together, loses as twenty separate guys, each running for his own lifeboat.”