Pierre Trudeau

"I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon."

"The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights."

"I am sometimes also asked whether the October Crisis taught me anything about the art of governing, or about the means that were at my disposal for defusing the crisis. First of all, it taught me that…"

"If you want to see me again, don't bring signs saying "Trudeau is a pig" and don't bring signs that he hustles women, because I won't talk to you. I didn't get into politics to be insulted. And don't …"

"I don't know if the member of Prince Edward-Hastings thinks he's on camera, but he's not."

"I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!"

"I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs."

"The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers."