Quotes from Justin Trudeau

Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

I have nothing against wealth; I believe that government has a role to play in creating it by supporting pro-growth policies. However, success comes with responsibility.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

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.

Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.

Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends.

Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.

We need to make sure that everyone's pulling their weight and doing their fair share. Canadians get that, including the wealthy Canadians I talk to.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy.

I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.

People in the street will either call me 'Prime Minister' or 'Justin.' We'll see how that goes. But when I'm working, when I'm with my staff in public, I'm 'Prime Minister.' I say that if we're drinking beer out of a bottle, and you can see my tattoos, you should be comfortable calling me 'Justin.'

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent.

I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a difference, and quite frankly, the kids didn't care who my father had been, because it was late '90s; none of them were around or remembered my father.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

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.

One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market.

As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.