There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

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.

Sometimes falling apart is the bravest act of all

Growth is intentional and involves two legs

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

I don't have the proudest moment in football.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.