Top 227 Quotes & Sayings by Justin Trudeau
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Indigenous lives matter.
It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.
One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market.
Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.
Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights.
I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.
As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do.
Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.
I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better - for my kids and for yours.
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened a year before he died, when he came to visit me while I was teaching at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver.
Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.
I'm proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward.
The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.
I think Canadians have always been interested in the choices Americans make because the choices you make inevitably impact upon us... and how we make sure that we get that balance right between continuing to have a good relationship and standing for the things we believe in is what we expect of ourselves.
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
Liberals will continue to put forward positive solutions that will help our economy grow and give all Canadians a real and fair chance at success.
In regards to the United States, Canadians expect me to stand up for our values and defend our interests and to have a constructive relationship with our largest trading partner and closest neighbour.
The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions.
Canada has always been there to help people who need it.
Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.
I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.
The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it's what created North America.
My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.
We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
My father, his values were anchored in the time, but they were also timeless, whether it's bilingualism, multiculturalism or the charter of rights and freedoms.
You know what, Nickelback's alright.
We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.
I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.
Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.
CBC has a very important mandate to bind Canada together in both official languages, tell local stories, and make sure we have a sense of our strength, our culture, our stories.
It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.
When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will.
I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.
Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.
My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength.
I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.
One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.
The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.
Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.
I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments.
Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.
Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.
There was a perception that I'd grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth.
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
Ours was not a normal or easy life.
As politicians, we're very, very much trained to say something and stick with it.
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void.
A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.
As soon as you're locking doors, you're narrowing your circle. And your circle gets smaller and smaller until it's finally just yourself and your buddy and you've got no one to party with.
Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.
I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.
If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.
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