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" I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman. "

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" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it. "

" 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. "

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

" We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better - for my kids and for yours. "

" We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth. "

" A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues. "

" Quite frankly, I talk about the fact that I'm a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do, it gets huge reaction, and media reacts, and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I'm a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it, because that's where we want to get to. "

" The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. "