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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
Pierre Trudeau -
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Trudeau
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Fuck off.
Pierre Trudeau -
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.
Pierre Trudeau -
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
Pierre Trudeau -
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau -
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
Pierre Trudeau -
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
Pierre Trudeau