I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.

I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

It's good to be alive.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.