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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.
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In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
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