You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

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.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.