Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

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

a theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.