Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

I have arranged my little life.

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.