You're Never Really Out Of Politics.

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.

America's Entire War On Terror Is An Exercise In Imperialism. This May Come As A Shock To Americans, Who Don't Like To Think Of Their Country As An Empire. But What Else Can You Call America's Legions Of Soldiers, Spooks And Special Forces Straddling The Globe?

You Can't Get Back To Power By Defining Your Project In Negative Terms. But It Helps To Have Somebody In Office Who Represents The Opposite Of What You Believe.

Political Utopias Are A Form Of Nostalgia For An Imagined Past Projected Onto The Future As A Wish.

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."