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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence. "

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

" 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. "

" People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else. "

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

" 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. "

" People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won't immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it. "

" 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. "

" Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes. "

" I think it's always been understood that Canada is not a country that's going to stand up and beat its chest on the world stage, but we can be very helpful in modelling solutions that work. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy. "

" 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. "

" I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us. "

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