There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

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.