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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

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.

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.

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.

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.