Justin Trudeau quotes
Born
December 25, 1971, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Occupation
Politician.
Justin Trudeau is a Canadian politician. Trudeau is the second-youngest Canadian Prime Minister.
At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I’m doing.
– Justin Trudeau
People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I’m not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.
– Justin Trudeau
Since I became Liberal leader, I’ve focused on building a better Canada for the middle class.
– Justin Trudeau
I think people understand that if you’re going to have a successful economy, you need people’s 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.
– Justin Trudeau
Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.
– Justin Trudeau
I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government – whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments.
– Justin Trudeau
I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.
– Justin Trudeau
Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity – together with my wife Sophie – to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.
– Justin Trudeau
Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.
– Justin Trudeau
You get more diversity and creativity in your problem solving, and you end up having a much better and more representative approach to solving the challenges faced by the population you serve.
– Justin Trudeau
As politicians, we’re very, very much trained to say something and stick with it.
– Justin Trudeau
I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a difference, and quite frankly, the kids didn’t care who my father had been, because it was late ’90s; none of them were around or remembered my father.
– Justin Trudeau
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.
– Justin Trudeau
Throughout our history, Canada’s immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were – and are – nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations.
– Justin Trudeau
We know that society is better – more prosperous, more stable, more peaceful, more cohesive – when women’s rights are respected and when women are valued, empowered, and lead the way in our communities.
– Justin Trudeau
Indigenous lives matter.
– Justin Trudeau
My father’s 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.
– Justin Trudeau
My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.
– Justin Trudeau
Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I’m jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
– Justin Trudeau
We need to make sure we’re all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.
– Justin Trudeau
A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.
– Justin Trudeau
It’s important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
– Justin Trudeau
Connecting with Canadians isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you’re listening to. It’s about what you understand.
– Justin Trudeau
I have nothing against wealth; I believe that government has a role to play in creating it by supporting pro-growth policies. However, success comes with responsibility.
– Justin Trudeau
Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper’s style because he’s standing at the top of the pyramid – that’s not leadership to me.
– Justin Trudeau
Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign policy menu.
– Justin Trudeau
Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.
– 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.
– Justin Trudeau
The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.
– Justin Trudeau
We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.
– Justin Trudeau
It’s always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.
– Justin Trudeau
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
– Justin Trudeau
Canada’s extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.
– Justin Trudeau
I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.
– Justin Trudeau
If Rob Ford decided he wanted to run for the Liberal Party in 2015, we’d say, ‘No, sorry, the way you approach things, the way you govern, the way you behave is not suitable to the kind of Liberal team we want to build.’
– Justin Trudeau
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
– Justin Trudeau