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

Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It comes in a thousand colours, but the common denominator is: it's not about me - it's about we.

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.

All war aims for impunity.

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

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

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.