Pierre Trudeau Quotes
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Vive la France libre.
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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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I've been called worse things by better people.
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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 believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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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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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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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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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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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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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 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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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 state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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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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I'm not leaving! I must stay.
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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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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.