What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on itself and think the thing we've got to do is fix our plumbing. The thing we've got to do is get new people in.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.