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" 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. "

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" We should have a good working friendship with the United States. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it. "

" I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them. "

" 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. "

" We are going to remain an important part of the coalition against ISIL. "

" Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype. "

" Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls. "

" Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth. "

" 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. "

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

" You know what, Nickelback's alright. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths. "

" Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart. "

" The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of. "

" Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving. "

" 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. "

" Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. "

" There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest. "

" 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. "

" We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement. "

" 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. "