Pierre Trudeau Quotes

We want an independent Quebec within a strong and united Canada.

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.

I am branded in Quebec as a traitor to the French, and in Ontario as a traitor to the English. In Quebec I am branded as a Jingo, and in Ontario as a separatist. In Quebec I am attacked is an imperialists, and in Ontario as an anti-imperialist. I am neither. I am a Canadian.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

Quebec will secede from Canada and form an independent republic. The 3 prairie provinces--Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba--will likewise secede and become part of the U.S.

I don't expect my children to suffer much if Quebec should withdraw or Canada withdraw from Quebec. ... Yet it's been a lovely place to grow up in …

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

A real danger threatens the unity of the Canadian people and the preservation of its political existence. This danger is the slow but sure penetration of Americanism into all phases of our national, political, and social life.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

Canada first, Canada last, and Canada always.

So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Levesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place

New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

Canadian, adj. and n. An anti-American American.

Ottawa gives to foreigners, Duplessis gives to his province.