Pierre Trudeau Quotes
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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I must say that 'Give Peace a Chance' has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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I've been called worse things by better people.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.
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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.'
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Vive la France libre.
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If you want to see me again, don't bring signs saying 'Trudeau is a pig' and don't bring signs that he hustles women, because I won't talk to you. I didn't get into politics to be insulted. And don't throw wheat at me either. If you don't stop that, I'll kick you right in the ass.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs. A man must say what he believes clearly, without dogma, and without guile.
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I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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I don't know if the member of Prince Edward-Hastings thinks he's on camera, but he's not.
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The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
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The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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As against the 'invisible hand' of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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I'm not leaving! I must stay.
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We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.