Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC, usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was a Canadian politician who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968, to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980, to June 30, 1984...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 October 1919
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
best-things
The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
wonderful deep-down despised
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
shopping canada centre
Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
optimism realist
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
views expression law
I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.
france libre
Vive la France libre.
yards hills members
When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
ideas people dresses
People are more interested in ideas than dress.
philosophy past important
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
peace war politician
The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
reading government speech
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
sleep elephants friendly
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
jesus years next
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
greatness thinking forever
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.