Pierre Trudeau (1919 – 2000)
Canadian politician.
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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.
The greatest pop star this country has ever produced.
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.
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
If all politicians were like Mr. Trudeau, there would be world peace.
Go bang the window and see what happens — just go test it. See that? Trudeau had the office bulletproofed. I always contended that the reason he did it was because the American embassy is right outside. They probably wanted to shoot him.
I'd rather be sincere in one language than sound like a twit in two.
I'm not leaving! I must stay.
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries;it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.
What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
When I had been appointed to the Cabinet in 1967, I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.
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.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!
I am sometimes also asked whether the October Crisis taught me anything about the art of governing, or about the means that were at my disposal for defusing the crisis. First of all, it taught me that you can be the prescient futurologist in the world, you can lay out the best-made plans and define your priorities with the utmost care, but if you show yourself to be incapable of managing a crisis when it arises, you will lose your right to govern and the whole thing will blow up in your face.