Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact that we don't want to have a country where you think, "my kids have got to move to the city if they're going to have any kind of future." We've been saying that, and we've not got through.

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

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

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.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on itself and think the thing we've got to do is fix our plumbing. The thing we've got to do is get new people in.