I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career - is urban-rural. Lots of parts of this country feel entirely left behind. And they're mobilized by, you know, the gun control issue.

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

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

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.