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"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
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"Life can only be experienced."

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"To live a fantasy is to avoid a life."

"You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real."

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"The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth."


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


"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."


"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past."


"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration."


"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."


"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."


"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."


"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?"
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