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" One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market. "

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" 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. "

" As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do. "

" Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype. "

" 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. "

" Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Indigenous lives matter. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" One of the reasons why Canadians are generally positively inclined towards immigration is we've seen over decades, over generations, that it works. "

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

" There was a perception that I'd grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it. "

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