“If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.”

“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.”

“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.”

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