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
teacher teaching risk
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.
teaching discovery quality
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries;it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.
curves long life-is
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
house wish canada
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
peers canada privilege
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
intelligent totems break
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
paddling renewal canoeing
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
best-things
The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
jobs time-keeping busy
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
bedroom states nations
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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.