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" 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
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" 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
" I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching. "
Justin Trudeau
Good
Teacher
Good Teacher
" 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
" 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
Enough
Parents
Perfect
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Feel
Education
Choices
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Bad
Walking
Tears
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Life
Children
Compassion
" 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
Believe
People
Others
" We need to make sure that everyone's pulling their weight and doing their fair share. Canadians get that, including the wealthy Canadians I talk to. "
Justin Trudeau
Need
Fair
Everyone
" We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries. "
Justin Trudeau
People
Phase
Through
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Think
Political
Best
" The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it. "
Justin Trudeau
Just
Passage
Northwest
" I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard. "
Justin Trudeau
Hard
Balance
Me
" 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
" For generations, Canada has been built by hard-working people who want to make sure their kids have a better life than they did. "
Justin Trudeau
Canada
People
Life
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Kind
You
Time
" Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction. "
Justin Trudeau
Support
Globalization
Direction
" We are going to remain an important part of the coalition against ISIL. "
Justin Trudeau
Against
Coalition
Important
" You get more diversity and creativity in your problem solving, and you end up having a much better and more representative approach to solving the challenges faced by the population you serve. "
Justin Trudeau
Diversity
Creativity
End
" 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
Best
Party
House
" Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations. "
Justin Trudeau
Citizenship
Political
People
" Ours was not a normal or easy life. "
Justin Trudeau
Normal
Ours
Easy
" If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple leaf and say, 'OK, it's good quality.' "
Justin Trudeau
Looking
Quality
Family
" You know what, Nickelback's alright. "
Justin Trudeau
You
Know
Alright
" Certainly in a world where terrorism is a daily reality in the news, it's easy for people to be afraid. But the fact is that we laid out very clearly - and Canadians get - that it's actually not a choice between either immigration or security: that of course they go together. "
Justin Trudeau
People
Daily
Reality
" Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone. "
Justin Trudeau
Everyone
Benefits
Paid
" 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
Think
Work
Good
" We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity. "
Justin Trudeau
Through
Economic
Citizens
" The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy. "
Justin Trudeau
Government
Good
Democracy
" I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a difference, and quite frankly, the kids didn't care who my father had been, because it was late '90s; none of them were around or remembered my father. "
Justin Trudeau
School
Father
High School