Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

There is no gap between art and politics.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.

There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to feel that they had swapped one oppressive regime for another. The Iraqis did exchange one oppression for a lighter kind, in some ways.