Pierre Trudeau: Quotes about time

Pierre Trudeau was 15th Prime Minister of Canada. Explore interesting quotes on time.

Pierre Trudeau: 106 quotes2 likes

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

Preface, p. ix
Memoirs (1993)

“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”

As quoted in The Rainmaker : A Passion for Politics (1986) by Keith Davey, p. 57; also in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) by Connie Robertson, p. 439

“The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.”

Pierre Trudeau

In reply to a high school student's question about what happened to Trudeau's promises of a "Just Society", in Regina, Saskatchewan (September 1972)[citation needed]

“Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.”

Pierre Trudeau

Defining liberalism at the 1968 Liberal leadership convention, as quoted in "History of the Liberal Party of Canada" (PDF at the Liberal Party website) http://web.archive.org/web/20070418135603/http://www.liberal.ca/pdf/docs/070417_lpc_history_en.pdf