To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

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 a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

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.

Pay attention to every person who crosses your path today. They are there for a reason.

If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.

And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

We never touch but at points.

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

If you don't deal with your emotions, one day your emotions will deal with you.

If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That's no small victory for her going towards a general election.

I always root for the defense.