You're never really out of politics.

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.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

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.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

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

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.