We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.

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.

No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then, what do we do about it? It's the biggest problem out there, in all western liberal societies.

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

All war aims for impunity.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.