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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.