Passport

"We dont have to have these passports, do we? Surely we can keep our British ones if we want. ... My children and grandchildren forced to abandon the old British passport!"

"To lose a passport was the least of ones worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe."

"My passport was received with a mocking smile. The bastard wouldnt take our word for anything. We had to show our money and count it out before his eyes. Then the amounts were written in our passports. We were warned against attempting to find work, unless it was in a ship leaving Djibouti, or to engage in the drug traffic. We were told, finally, that if either of us was still in the territory seven days hence, he had better be able to swim."

"[T]he American dream is still alive and well, thanks: Even the newest taxi driver stumbling over his English grammar knows he can truly become an American. But European Muslims cant become French or Dutch or Italian or German. Even if they qualify for a passport, they remain second-class citizens. On a good day. And theyre supposed to take over the continent thats exported more death than any other?"

"We are here to make Simón Bolívars dream real. [...] Sooner, rather than later, we shall have a single currency, a single passport... Sooner, rather than later, we shall have a parliament with directly elected representatives for this new nation that we are creating today."