Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC, usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was a Canadian politician who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968, to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980, to June 30, 1984...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 October 1919
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
law criminals citizens
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.
exercise power tire
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
wonderful deep-down despised
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
thinking let-it-go canada
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.
shopping canada centre
Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
optimism realist
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
bedroom states nations
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
mean power bleeding-heart
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.
jobs time-keeping busy
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
best-things
The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
paddling renewal canoeing
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
caring hands invisible-hand
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 society that is caring and humane.
use world tough
I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.
mother strong past
The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.