"The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people."
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"I'm in the ironic position of teaching native Americans how to think about their country. How odd it seems, and yet how perfectly American, that I, a Hungarian immigrant, should teach them."
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