When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

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.

Soothing the exhaustionIn my soul, So I can fall back skyward, Safe in your arms, And survive to dream again.

Every morning and every night, I pause for just a minute and express my gratitude for all that I have in my life and all that I have experienced.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.

My life is going to change. I feel it.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.