The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.

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

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

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

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.

You're never really out of politics.