An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

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.

There are no techniques in politics.

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 can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

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.

Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.

There’s intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

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

The medium’s gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.