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Quotes by Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“Luck, thats when preparation and opportunity meet.”

“Sorry, youre on the no-fly list. You cant board the plane.”

“Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”

“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”

“Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.”

“Reason over passion.”

“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”

“Its not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.”

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

Theres no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Power only tires those who dont exercise it.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.