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Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.
As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.
Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.
Let us follow the facts, not Liberal ideology, and let us target the root cause of terrorism. They are called terrorists.
The tax on capital gains in Canada is twice as high as in communist China and we wonder why our ideas are being held back.
Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.
Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends.
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.
I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.
Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.
People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.
They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.
It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
The opposition believes that we should allow people to vote without even showing a shred of identification. Canadians disagree.
For generations, Canada has been built by hard-working people who want to make sure their kids have a better life than they did.
I am so proud of my family, and I am happy to give them all the limelight they want because heaven knows I got more than I need.
The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve their goals.
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.
Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.
If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.
I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.
I think people are looking at Canada and realizing we're a place that is building for the long term and where the world's going to be.
I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.
I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.
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.
I was raised with pretty thick skin. And I think people are hungry for politicians who aren't afraid to say what they think and mean it.
I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.
We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That's why we brought in the universal child care benefit way back in 2006.
We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.
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.
Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.
I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.
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.
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.
The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.
We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.
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.
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.
In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.