I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

I'm not going to get establishment support. I'm not going to get the support of the governors and the senators, with few exceptions, and many of the major organizations.

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

What a glorious morning this is!

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.