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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.

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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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Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
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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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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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As against the invisible hand of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
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