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.

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

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

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

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

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

The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and commitment and brains of the next generation. They've got to be big enough to reach out to those groups and say "come on in."