All War Aims For Impunity.

Family Traditions Are More Than Arguments With The Dead, More Than Collections Of Family Letters You Try To Decipher. A Tradition Is Also A Channel Of Memory Through Which Fierce And Unrequited Longings Surge, Longings That Define And Shape A Whole Life.

The Only Cure For Nihilism Is For Liberal Democratic Societies - Their Electorates, Their Judiciary, And Their Political Leadership- To Insist That Force Is Legitimate Only To The Degree That It Serves Defensible Poltical Goals. Thus Implies A Constant Exercise Of Due Diligence.

I Distinguish, Between Nationalism And Patriotism.

To Defeat Evil, We May Have To Traffic In Evils: Indefinite Detention Of Suspects, Coercive Interrogations, Targeted Assassinations, Even Pre-emptive War.

One Of The Biggest Divides In Canada - I Said It In 2006, And I Said It Right Through My Political Career - Is Urban-rural. Lots Of Parts Of This Country Feel Entirely Left Behind. And They're Mobilized By, You Know, The Gun Control Issue.