One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the media cover this or that? Well of course the media covered it. Why didn't you read about it? And, you know, it's, you know, there you are, it's not the journalist's job to knock down your door, you know, punch the URL into your computer and force you to stop watching the Kardashians and to read, you know, a report on integrity in government instead, it's your job.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he reduce their stock value with an angry tweet.