Pierre Trudeau Quotes
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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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 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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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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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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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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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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I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!
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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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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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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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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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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
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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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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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Fuck off.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.