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

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

All war aims for impunity.

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.

What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on itself and think the thing we've got to do is fix our plumbing. The thing we've got to do is get new people in.

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.

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