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.

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

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

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

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.

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.