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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
Diarist
Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
Judge
Lawyer
Memoirist
Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.
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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.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.
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A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
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The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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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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I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.
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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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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 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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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.
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The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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