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01Undated

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote

02Undated

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote

03Undated

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote

04Undated

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote

05Undated

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote

06Undated

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote

07Undated

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote

08Undated

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau / quote