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There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.

Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.