A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.