Top 100 Quotes About Trudeau
#1. Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.
Bill Watterson
#2. Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
Brian Mulroney
#3. In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
John Diefenbaker
#4. In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving Layton
#5. If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
Brad Schneider
#6. Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.
Peter Brimelow
#7. For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on.
Justin Trudeau
#8. Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
Steve Cropper
#9. Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another.
Jean Chretien
#10. At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.
Jean Chretien
#11. I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
Michael Ignatieff
#12. Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life
whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor,
Jean Chretien
#13. We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.
Justin Trudeau
#14. Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.
Justin Trudeau
#15. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#16. In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point
out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is
not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate
them.
Pierre Trudeau
#17. I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.
Justin Trudeau
#18. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#19. I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
Garry Trudeau
#21. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#22. Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility
Garry Trudeau
#23. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#24. People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.
Justin Trudeau
#25. Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
Garry Trudeau
#26. In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Garry Trudeau
#27. I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
Garry Trudeau
#28. Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
Garry Trudeau
#30. Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
Garry Trudeau
#31. If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
Pierre Trudeau
#32. Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.
Garry Trudeau
#33. 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.
Pierre Trudeau
#34. Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
Pierre Trudeau
#35. The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Pierre Trudeau
#36. I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
Pierre Trudeau
#38. I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.
Justin Trudeau
#39. I use logic all the time in mathematics, and it seems to yield "correct" results, but in mathematics "correct" by and large means "logical", so I'm back where I started. I can't defend logic because I can't remove my glasses.
Richard J. Trudeau
#40. I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau
#41. I trust Canadians to be able to look at the different parties, the different leaders, the plans, the teams, and make a responsible choice. And I'm very, very confident that's exactly what Canadians are going to do.
Justin Trudeau
#42. There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
Garry Trudeau
#43. I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics,
Justin Trudeau
#44. When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
Garry Trudeau
#45. Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
Justin Trudeau
#46. Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Pierre Trudeau
#47. You can't be Canadian without being aware of at least one other country, the United States, 'cause it's so important to us. I think we sometimes like to think that, you know, Americans will pay attention to us from time to time, too.
Justin Trudeau
#48. Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau
#49. The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau
#50. The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.
Justin Trudeau
#51. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#52. For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Garry Trudeau
#53. I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
Garry Trudeau
#54. You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
Pierre Trudeau
#55. After Katrina, I decided it's better to have a President who's competent rather than one who's beer-worthy.
Doonsebury
G.B. Trudeau
#56. Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.
Justin Trudeau
#57. My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.
Justin Trudeau
#58. We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
Pierre Trudeau
#59. A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
Pierre Trudeau
#60. People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.
Justin Trudeau
#61. Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
Pierre Trudeau
#62. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#63. People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.
Justin Trudeau
#64. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#65. At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.
Justin Trudeau
#66. I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.
Justin Trudeau
#67. Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
Garry Trudeau
#68. 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.
Pierre Trudeau
#69. I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
Garry Trudeau
#70. Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.
Garry Trudeau
#72. I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.
Justin Trudeau
#73. I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis
I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working,
Justin Trudeau
#74. If Rob Ford decided he wanted to run for the Liberal Party in 2015, we'd say, 'No, sorry, the way you approach things, the way you govern, the way you behave is not suitable to the kind of Liberal team we want to build.'
Justin Trudeau
#75. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#76. 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.
Pierre Trudeau
#77. I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.
Pierre Trudeau
#78. When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
Pierre Trudeau
#79. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#80. The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
Pierre Trudeau
#81. 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.
Justin Trudeau
#82. Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
Garry Trudeau
#83. I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
Garry Trudeau
#84. Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
Garry Trudeau
#85. At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.
Garry Trudeau
#86. I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
Garry Trudeau
#87. I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.
Justin Trudeau
#88. Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
Pierre Trudeau
#89. My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Trudeau
#90. The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.
Pierre Trudeau
#91. Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
Garry Trudeau
#92. I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
Garry Trudeau
#93. My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.
Justin Trudeau
#94. Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
Garry Trudeau
#95. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
Pierre Trudeau
#96. Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.
Justin Trudeau
#97. I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
Garry Trudeau
#98. It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
Pierre Trudeau
#99. I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
Garry Trudeau
#100. I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.
Justin Trudeau
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