Ram Nath Kovind Quotes

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

One can never be certain what is in the mind of the oriental but we must leave the oriental no doubt what is in our mind.

I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.

I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

French people are strange about America, I think.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

It can have a positive effect on public opinion worldwide if conducted properly. It is a way of conveying the Islamic point of view to Western people

National culture can act as a bridge, instead of an obstacle, to mutual spiritual and intellectual understanding.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army.

When people do get to see each other and know each other more - you'll see it in New York, all these cultures are together - other cultures become far less scary and less foreign to you.

I'm not a massive reader of online comments but I come across the odd comment where people still question if I'm English. I find that so silly.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

I don't really see any difference between Pakistani people and the Indians. We eat the same food, we speak the same language. I don't really see any difference.

When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, 'I can't stand this'. Then I'd meet somebody in a bar saying what wonderful people the Palestinians are and what mamzers the Jews are, and I'd think, 'Hang on'. It should be hard to make up your mind on any serious subject.

I come from Oregon, which is this super-white state, so I didn't really have a lot of Asian friends in high school and college. And my background's in comedy, and your friends are just your peers in comedy, which is a whole mix of people.

I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.