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

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

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."

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.