Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.
Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.
For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.
