I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

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

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

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

I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.