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

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.

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.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

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

The Conservatives hold rural places because they keep bombarding rural Canada with, "Liberals are a bunch of urban, metropolitan snobs who don't care about you and want to leave you dead by the roadside." We've simply got to go out and say, "they're lying to you about us. We actually care about you more than the other guys, and we're not going to pander to your prejudices - we're going to give hope to your kids."

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.