I respect the work Mr. Harper has done to learn French, to make a 'gesture' toward Quebec. My criticism of him is that he's making promises I don't think he can keep.

I spent five years in the United States. I admire and respect American institutions.

The system did not work here. I have respect for the courts but the bottom line is that an innocent man remains in jail period.

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.