Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.