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All war aims for impunity.
You're never really out of politics.
There are no techniques in politics.
The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
What we want is to become masters in our own house.
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.
Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.
It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.
Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.
Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.
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.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
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.
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.
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.
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.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.