Pierre Trudeau Quotations

Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none — there were just snowflakes.

I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

Vive la France libre.