“A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.”

“Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.”

“Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.”

“At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.”

“Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.”

“Canada has always been there to help people who need it.”

“Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.”

“Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.”

“Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.”

“Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.”

“For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on.”

“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.”

“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 have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.”

“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.”

“I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.”

“I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.”

“I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.”

“I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.”

“I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.”

“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.”

“I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.”

“If Rob Ford decided he wanted to run for the Liberal Party in 2015, we'd say, 'No, sorry, the way you approach things, the way you govern, the way you behave is not suitable to the kind of Liberal team we want to build.'”

“I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.”

“In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.”

“I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.”

“Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.”

“My father found cocktail parties challenging.”

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

“My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.”

“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.”

“Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.”

“One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.”

“Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.”

“Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.”

“Ours was not a normal or easy life.”

“People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.”

“People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.”

“People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.”

“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.”

“The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.”

“The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.”

“The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.”

“Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.”

“We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it.”

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

“When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will.”

“When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.”

“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.”

“Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.”

“You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.”