26 Quotes by Mark Potok

They always claim to be larger and more powerful than they really are,

People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.

The movement is interested not so much in developing street thugs who beat up people in bars, but college-bound teens who live in middle-class and upper-class homes.

You often see these groups spring up in response to demographic changes. Some people feel threatened, and they look for a group to blame.

This case could have been made 36 years ago. ... (The FBI) knew what had happened,

Americans ignore the threat of these groups at their peril. Eleven years ago, a pair of extremists carried out a mass killing that included the murder of 19 children. If we're not careful, it could very well happen again.

The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.

It's very likely they didn't have direct or public connections to hate groups. It's very likely this was a troubled young man who was attracted to images of power.

I don't think there's anything thus far to suggest a hate crime.