Well, I have spent more time than my critics, I believe, acquainting myself with what goes on in the real world. These are terrible and uncivilized things, but they are real. Just because Steven Spielberg never will make a movie about them makes them no less real and no less terrible. And we won't stop them from happening by sipping tea and engaging in polite conversation with the people who are responsible for these things happening. We must deal with the real world, and the real world has been a bloody and terrible place in the past, and I firmly believe that it will continue to be that way.
Survival is a bloody business.
Let us not be fooled by our momentary comforts into believing otherwise. The mess we are in presently is more likely to be resolved by somebody's heads being put on poles than it is by being polite and avoiding the more unpleasant aspects of reality. But I am obsessed by the idea that we must not, through inaction or through an insistence on being polite and civilized, allow the enemies of our people to do again to us what they did in Estonia or in Ukraine or in the Katyn forest or in the prisoner of war camp at N rnberg. And as long as they continue in their efforts to deceive us, as long as they continue in their efforts to prevent people like me from contradicting them, I will continue to be obsessed.