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

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

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

You're never really out of politics.

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

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