A theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum.
I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s. There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. In Vietnam, rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.
I'd be wary of writing this country off. There are some scary and ugly things about it, but it remains a turbulently, explosively innovative place.
You can't spend your whole life teaching people about public service without finally thinking that you should put your money where your mouth is.
Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.
I don't think you'll have to wait long. I'm not in a Hamlet-like state of indecision.
I spent five years in the United States. I admire and respect American institutions.
I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians.
None of us, none of us are going to run against each other. All of us are running against Stephen Harper's vision of Canada.
.. Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
geneva-convention human-rights politics
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.
choice life
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
afterlife forgetting memory
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
people war
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
people
Ever since I entered Parliament in January, people have been asking me: Why have you gone into politics? As in: Are you nuts? No, I'm not nuts. This is my country, after all.
people politics