You can't 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. - Justin Trudeau 1 Share Now -
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues. - Justin Trudeau 2 Share Now -
I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching. - Justin Trudeau 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart. - Justin Trudeau 5 Share Now -
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 we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence. - Justin Trudeau 6 Share Now -
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman. - Justin Trudeau 7 Share Now -
Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing. - Justin Trudeau 8 Share Now -
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. - Justin Trudeau 9 Share Now -
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 that's what I do very well. - Justin Trudeau 10 Share Now -