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

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.

The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

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

So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.

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.