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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries. "

" Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. "

" The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians. "

" My father found cocktail parties challenging. "

" I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths. "

" People in the street will either call me 'Prime Minister' or 'Justin.' We'll see how that goes. But when I'm working, when I'm with my staff in public, I'm 'Prime Minister.' I say that if we're drinking beer out of a bottle, and you can see my tattoos, you should be comfortable calling me 'Justin.' "

" If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple leaf and say, 'OK, it's good quality.' "

" Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" CBC has a very important mandate to bind Canada together in both official languages, tell local stories, and make sure we have a sense of our strength, our culture, our stories. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments. "

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

" Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada. "

" Ours was not a normal or easy life. "

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

" Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids. "

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

" The federal government shouldn't be drawing lines on a map in terms of what transit infrastructure are needed; we should be there to be a partner with the cities, with the provinces, that need that. "

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