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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.
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
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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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.
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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