...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on itself and think the thing we've got to do is fix our plumbing. The thing we've got to do is get new people in.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.