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 ….

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural..

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation..

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than pa….

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back..

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 order….

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 ….

The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and ….

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom..

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 increasingl….

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..

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, th….

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism..

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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 th….

We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian peop….

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted..

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 th….

Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It c….

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

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish..