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" Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country. "

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" 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. "

" I think Canada has a great story, and I'm glad to tell it. And if there's a moment where the world is paying a little more attention to Canada, well, I think it's important to try and capitalize on that. "

" Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand. "

" At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing. "

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

" Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most. "

" Income splitting is not a wise investment for Canadians. "

" 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. "

" For generations, Canada has been built by hard-working people who want to make sure their kids have a better life than they did. "

" 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. "

" My father, his values were anchored in the time, but they were also timeless, whether it's bilingualism, multiculturalism or the charter of rights and freedoms. "

" What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're going to make sure there is a strong price on carbon right across the country, and we're hoping that the provinces are going to be able to do that, in a way, for themselves. "

" As soon as you're locking doors, you're narrowing your circle. And your circle gets smaller and smaller until it's finally just yourself and your buddy and you've got no one to party with. "

" 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. "

" My father found cocktail parties challenging. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends. "

" I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity. "

" It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through. "