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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.