Justin Trudeau

“We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.”

“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.”

“Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.”

“My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.”

“Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone.”

“I trust Canadians to be able to look at the different parties, the different leaders, the plans, the teams, and make a responsible choice. And I'm very, very confident that's exactly what Canadians are going to do.”

“People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.”

“We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.”

“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.”

“My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.”

“I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.”

“The best counter to the kind of radicalization and marginalization that we've seen in other parts of the world is to create an inclusive society where everyone, including especially Muslim Canadians, have every opportunity to succeed, just like anybody else.”

“My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.”

“I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.”

“One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels tomorrow - it's going to take a few decades. Maybe we can shorten it, but there's going to have to be a transition time.”

“I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.”

“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.”

“Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights.”

“When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have received so much from this country. I realize that we're defined in life not by what we get from this world but by what we have to offer it, and I know that I have a lot to offer this country, and I'm serious about devoting my life to it.”

“When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative anonymity. After my dad's funeral, I was suddenly recognizable to people I passed on the street.”