Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

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.

Make time your friend and not your enemy

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Without books, I would certainly die.