Pierre Trudeau Quotes
- Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
- Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
- If there is anything that puzzles me in this game, it is that the longer that you are in the job of prime minister, the…
- 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.
- 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…
- What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!
- The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
- I've been called worse things by better people.
- If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
- 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.…
- 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.
- I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
- People are more interested in ideas than dress.
- I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
- What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train…
- Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form…
- 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…
- We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
- 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…
- The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.