U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as different regimes come and go and interests change.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is focused on just one issue, which is the survival of Israel, which is understandable, and promoting Israeli development and aid to Israel, and so forth and so on.

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

Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.