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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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