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.

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

You're never really out of politics.

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.

We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

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