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

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

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

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

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.

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

You're never really out of politics.