There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.