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" I think this is the story of this country, that you get to come here and build a better future for yourself and for your neighbours than you could have anywhere else in the world. "

Justin Trudeau

Think

Yourself

World

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" 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

Vision

Down

" 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. "

" I have been incredibly lucky all my life. I've had a family that has loved me and given me incredible opportunities. I've gone to great schools. I've travelled across the country. "

Justin Trudeau

Life

Great

" 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. "

" We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it. "

" The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights. "

" As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing. "

" The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it's what created North America. "

" 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.' "

" Confident countries are willing to invest in the future. "

" 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. "

" Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction. "

" 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. "

" I have no regrets. "

Justin Trudeau

Regrets

No Regrets

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

" I don't feel that I or Canada has to prove anything through big, loud, overt acts. "

" 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. "

" As politicians, we're very, very much trained to say something and stick with it. "

" 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 don't put a lot of stock into polls. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think Canadians have always been interested in the choices Americans make because the choices you make inevitably impact upon us... and how we make sure that we get that balance right between continuing to have a good relationship and standing for the things we believe in is what we expect of ourselves. "