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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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Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.
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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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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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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 most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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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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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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You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.
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