Most immigrants contribute to society, most want to become good British citizens and most strike me as more like us with every rainy day that passes.
He also acknowledges that the SDLP has suffered from being stereotyped as the Stormont psychiatrist, trying to encourage unionists and republicans alike to analyse their problems as each new nervous breakdown hits the peace process, but sometimes missing out on a share of the glory when the crisis passes.
Perhaps, like me, you look at the party conferences and despair at the minute positioning that passes as politics.
Friends and colleagues would assume I was sulking – fretful about the budget, the traffic or the possibility that David Beckham would end up trotting around a football pitch for one last medley of complaints to the referee, misplaced passes and light tapping of the ankles of agile opponents as they raced by our national icon.
However, he saw limited playing time and threw two interceptions and no touchdowns, completing just 51.4% of his passes.
A butterfly passes in the quavering grace of its flight.
Peter Wilby's remark about Indians only being allowed to play cricket in India after a "prolonged struggle" (Sticky wickets, Review, 2 August) is an example of the freedom-struggle revisionism that now often passes for history on the Indian subcontinent.
Talk of such negative experiences passes quickly through tight-knit ethnic communities in the UK and abroad.
There was a time when I posed in bikinis, a time when I posed in exotic lingerie - and then the time passes.
4. Can't people just read the Cabinet Manual (PDF), which is pretty clear on the rules? 5. Ed, speaking in 2010 makes it clear too, doesn't he? 6. Can we not all just agree, then, that a government is formed when a majority in the Commons passes a vote of confidence? 7. The SNP probably wouldn't dare to vote down a Labour Queen's Speech and therefore isn't Ed Miliband right to call their bluff?
At the moment, Staples says, it's less about passes and more about scoring chances.
