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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think people are understanding that I'm immensely proud of my father. If people talk to me about him, I'll certainly respond. And there's a certain generation that still talks about him right off. And I take that with gratefulness and with gratitude. "

" For me, being able to engage with the details when necessary, when there's a challenge, when there's a particularly important pivot, yes, you have to do that. But in general, a leader needs to trust their commanders, needs to trust the team they've assembled, to actually execute in the right way. "

" 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. "

" If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have. "

" 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. "

" Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights. "

" I am so proud to be my mother's son. "

" We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know what, Nickelback's alright. "

" Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine. "

" My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me. "

" Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada. "

" 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. "

" When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have received so much from this country. I realize that we're defined in life not by what we get from this world but by what we have to offer it, and I know that I have a lot to offer this country, and I'm serious about devoting my life to it. "

" 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. "

" I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament. "

" My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength. "

" 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. "

" Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone. "

" 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. "

" I think people are looking at Canada and realizing we're a place that is building for the long term and where the world's going to be. "

" 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. "

" We're investing billions of dollars in housing, in home care on the medical side. We're investing billions of dollars in public transit that is not just creating good jobs now but is going to help people get to and from their good jobs in more reliable ways. "

" I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all. "

" I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world. "

" I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen. "