Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most dramatically illustrated in the European Union. But other groupings of countries are emerging in East Asia and in South America. Basically, as I said, these politics will be oriented around, in large part, cultural similarities and cultural antagonism.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.