There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.