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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Indigenous lives matter. "

" When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will. "

" 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. "

" Since I became Liberal leader, I've focused on building a better Canada for the middle class. "

" I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions. "

" 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. "

" I have no regrets. "

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Regrets

No Regrets

" I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do. "

" We know that society is better - more prosperous, more stable, more peaceful, more cohesive - when women's rights are respected and when women are valued, empowered, and lead the way in our communities. "

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

" We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent. "

" For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on. "

Justin Trudeau

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My Life

" 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 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. "

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Life

Great

" 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. "

" Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign policy menu. "

" 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.' "

" A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact. "

" Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through. "

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Right

" Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had. "

" When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative anonymity. After my dad's funeral, I was suddenly recognizable to people I passed on the street. "

" Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make. "

" Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs. "

" A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone. "

" This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other. "

" 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'm proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward. "

" 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. "