Famous Pierre Trudeau Quotations

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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."
by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain."
by Pierre Trudeau
"Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)"
by Ronald Reagan
"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."
by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
by Irving Layton
"Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent."
by Pierre Trudeau
"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. (On relations with the US)"
by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"My life is one long curve, full of turning points."
by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
by 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."
by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"The essential ingredient in politics is timing."
by Pierre Elliott Trudeau


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