Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

The Conservatives hold rural places because they keep bombarding rural Canada with, "Liberals are a bunch of urban, metropolitan snobs who don't care about you and want to leave you dead by the roadside." We've simply got to go out and say, "they're lying to you about us. We actually care about you more than the other guys, and we're not going to pander to your prejudices - we're going to give hope to your kids."

I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.

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

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

You're never really out of politics.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?