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."

"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…"

"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."

"The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness."

"The essential ingredient of politics is timing."