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" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Government
Responsibility
Success
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" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Admire
Leadership
Style
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Relationships
Know
Government
" Richard Nixon made a toast to me as a future Prime Minister of Canada when I was 4 months old, sitting as a centerpiece in the middle of a table as my father had plonked me down there. It was more about politeness than any great vision. "
Justin Trudeau
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Vision
Down
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Team
Leader
Challenge
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Family
People
Citizen
" I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers, who have no realistic prospect of citizenship. It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians, but it's even worse for our country. "
Justin Trudeau
Believe
Canada
Citizenship
" A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact. "
Justin Trudeau
World
Impact
Ground
" There was a perception that I'd grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth. "
Justin Trudeau
Up
Mouth
Perception
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Culture
Important
Strength
" I don't put a lot of stock into polls. "
Justin Trudeau
Put
Polls
Lot
" One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need. "
Justin Trudeau
Way
Building
Challenges
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Solar
Person
Deep
" 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
Mean
Way
Person
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Equality
Way
Fighting
" 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
Feel
People
Me
" I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights. "
Justin Trudeau
Stand
Stand Up
Think
" In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights. "
Justin Trudeau
Vote
Party
Liberal
" Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa. "
Justin Trudeau
Want
Voice
People
" When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative anonymity. After my dad's funeral, I was suddenly recognizable to people I passed on the street. "
Justin Trudeau
People
Street
Years
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Home
Medical
People
" The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects. "
Justin Trudeau
People
Heart
Growth
" Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction. "
Justin Trudeau
Support
Globalization
Direction
" 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
People
Look
Like
" Canada has always been there to help people who need it. "
Justin Trudeau
Been
Canada
Help
" 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
Going
Secret
Think
" I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better - for my kids and for yours. "
Justin Trudeau
Politics
Day
I Am
" The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it. "
Justin Trudeau
Just
Passage
Northwest
" One of the things with Canada is we're of a modest enough size that we never feel that the ideal outcome of any given deal is, we win and you lose. "
Justin Trudeau
Enough
You
Canada
" 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.' "
Justin Trudeau
Beer
You
Street
" Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most. "
Justin Trudeau
Goes
Who
Need