Quotes by Justin Trudeau

Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.

Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges were facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges were facing.

I am a teacher. Its how I define myself. A good teacher isnt someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. Thats the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, itll have to do a lot with teaching.

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for womens rights, and Im not a woman.

If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think were actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to peoples intelligence.

Were committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - theres no question about it.

You cant run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

My fathers values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.

I trust Canadians capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.

Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know thats what I do very well.

Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know youre never going to deliver - thats the kind of cynical politics that I dont want any part of.

I think people understand that if youre going to have a successful economy, you need peoples potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids education or saving for their own retirement.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.