- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loving a country is an act of the imagination.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.
- Elizabethan
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is intensely physical: your hands touch, clasp and hold, and your eyes are always reaching for contact. None of this came naturally to me. I'd always put my trust in words and let the words do the work, but in politics, the real message is physical.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.
- Nationalism
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- Nov 07, 2020