That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That when you win, you win within limits, when you lose, you accept the outcome.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

No one is murdered in Hungary and there are no illegal arrests, but people have begun again, when they talk to you in a public place looking around to see who's listening. You see that in Slovakia, you're beginning to see that in Poland.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.