In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

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

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

When I think of countries that I enjoyed visiting, that I would want to go back to, Italy would be one, Japan would be another. I've only been to Indonesia once or twice and it seems like such a fascinating country. I guess India certainly.

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.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.