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.

There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go to the party convention, who can't take part in politics, because they're holding down a job to pay their tuition. These are kids who want to do public service, who want to get involved politically, but their financial situation is precarious.

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

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

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

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact that we don't want to have a country where you think, "my kids have got to move to the city if they're going to have any kind of future." We've been saying that, and we've not got through.