You can't spend your whole life teaching people about public service without finally thinking that you should put your money where your mouth is.

It may be a cliche', but some cliche's are deeply true: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

We have got to plant our standard firmly on the centre-left of Canadian politics.

None of us, none of us are going to run against each other. All of us are running against Stephen Harper's vision of Canada.

Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.

I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians.