It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.
I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else’s.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
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.
There’s a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.
The medium’s gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies – their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...
There’s a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.