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.

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

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

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.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

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