One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career - is urban-rural. Lots of parts of this country feel entirely left behind. And they're mobilized by, you know, the gun control issue.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

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

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

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

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.