A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.

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

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.

The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultural antagonisms and affiliations will play not the only role but a major role.

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.

Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence, now that Pakistan has a government that we can cooperate with, even though it is a military government, we are working together with them in order to promote our common interests. But obviously we also differ with Pakistan on a number of issues.