Pierre Trudeau Quotes
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Pierre Trudeau Quotes & Sayings
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
— Pierre Trudeau
What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!
— Pierre Trudeau
I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal. But if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
— Pierre Trudeau
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
— Pierre Trudeau
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
— Irving Layton
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.
— Pierre Trudeau
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
— Pierre Trudeau
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
— Michael Ignatieff
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
— Pierre Trudeau
The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
— Pierre Trudeau
If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.
— Pierre Trudeau
You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
— Pierre Trudeau
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.
— Pierre Trudeau
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
— Pierre Trudeau
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
— Pierre Trudeau
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
— Pierre Trudeau
Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
— Pierre Trudeau
Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
— Pierre Trudeau
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
— Pierre Trudeau
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
— Pierre Trudeau
When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
— Pierre Trudeau
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
— Pierre Trudeau
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
— Pierre Trudeau
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
— Pierre Trudeau
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
— Pierre Trudeau
Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
— Pierre Trudeau
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
— Pierre Trudeau
People are more interested in ideas than dress.
— Pierre Trudeau
Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
— Pierre Trudeau
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
— Pierre Trudeau
I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.
— Pierre Trudeau
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
— Pierre Trudeau
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
— John Diefenbaker
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
— Pierre Trudeau
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
— Pierre Trudeau
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
— 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
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
— Pierre Trudeau
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
— Pierre Trudeau
