Quotes from Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

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)

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

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.

Well, why should I sell the Canadian farmers' wheat?

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

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.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

In the Conservative view, you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.