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I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
— Garry Trudeau
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
— Pierre Trudeau
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.
— Pierre Trudeau
Our country's economy is strong, diversified, and resilient.
— Justin Trudeau
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
— Pierre Trudeau
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.
— Justin Trudeau
Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.
— Justin Trudeau
I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics,
— Justin Trudeau
The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
— Garry Trudeau
It takes two to destroy a marriage.
— Margaret Trudeau
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
— Garry Trudeau
I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
— Garry Trudeau
There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
— Garry Trudeau
Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
— Garry Trudeau
People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.
— Justin Trudeau
Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
— Garry Trudeau
The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions.
— Justin Trudeau
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
— Garry Trudeau
Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.
— Garry Trudeau
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
— Garry Trudeau
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
— Garry Trudeau
I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
— Garry Trudeau
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
— Garry Trudeau
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
— Pierre Trudeau
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
— Garry Trudeau
So having a little more of an awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world I think is what many Canadians would hope for Americans.
— Justin Trudeau
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
— Justin Trudeau
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
— Garry Trudeau
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
— Pierre Trudeau
People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.
— Justin Trudeau
We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.
— Justin Trudeau
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
— Steve Cropper
I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
— Pierre Trudeau
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
— Garry Trudeau
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.
— Pierre Trudeau
I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
— Margaret Trudeau
I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.
— Justin Trudeau
Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.
— Justin Trudeau
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
— Garry Trudeau
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
— Pierre Trudeau
I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.
— Justin Trudeau
You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
— Pierre Trudeau
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
— Garry Trudeau
At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.
— Justin Trudeau
If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.
— Pierre Trudeau
Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.
— Justin Trudeau
The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
— Pierre Trudeau
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.
— Pierre Trudeau
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
— Garry Trudeau
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
— Pierre Trudeau
I want my Canada back!
— Justin Trudeau
Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.
— Bill Watterson
Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.
— Justin Trudeau
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
— Michael Ignatieff
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
— Pierre Trudeau
People are more interested in ideas than dress.
— Pierre Trudeau
People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.
— Justin Trudeau
Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.
— Justin Trudeau
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
— Garry Trudeau
I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them ... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.
— Justin Trudeau
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
— Garry Trudeau
I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.
— Pierre Trudeau
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
— Pierre Trudeau
Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
— Pierre Trudeau
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
— Justin Trudeau
I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.
— Justin Trudeau
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
— Pierre Trudeau
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
— Garry Trudeau
Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.
— Garry Trudeau
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
— Justin Trudeau
Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
— Pierre Trudeau
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
— Pierre Trudeau
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
— Pierre Trudeau
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
— Garry Trudeau
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
— Pierre Trudeau
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
— Pierre Trudeau
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
— Justin Trudeau
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
— Pierre Trudeau
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
— Pierre Trudeau
Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.
— Justin Trudeau
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
— Justin Trudeau
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
— Pierre Trudeau
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
— Pierre Trudeau
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
— John Diefenbaker
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
— Pierre Trudeau
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
— Garry Trudeau
Canada has always been there to help people who need it.
— Justin Trudeau
We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it.
— Justin Trudeau
I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel.
— Margaret Trudeau
Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.
— Justin Trudeau
