The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

From 1882 until the 1950s, a whole series of legislation excluded immigrants from Asia from coming to our society.

Well, I think the worst thing would be for us to stumble into a great war without realizing it, without being the - without being prepared for it.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

One doesn't know whether that economic growth will continue at its recent rates, and China may well go into an economic slide.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.