Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order. ”

When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it's not very effective as a means of defending the country. ”

You need to make relationships to help you. ”

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful. ”

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them. ”

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that. ”

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre. ”

A leader's job is to find common ground. ”

My job is to make sure our caucus and our movement is united. That means not bringing up divisive issues that would divide even our own party. ”

I think the Conservative Party has a great story to tell when it comes to relationships with First Nations. I want to be part of the solution-identifying process, talking about, 'What are the practical things that we can achieve that the Conservatives can offer?' ”