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• There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
• Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is…
• Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
• The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the…
• If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to…
• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
• If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
• How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
• To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
• There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas…
• 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…

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