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When commenting on the suggestion that he was a nationalist and a Russian chauvinist, he said on the French scale of nationalism he would be "a Russian Gaullist". Rogozin said that for many Western diplomats hypocrisy was a way of life and that this took him a year of getting used to but now "I often speak to them in their own language". Rogozin said that high-ranking European officials had privately told him about their serious concerns about immigration. He warned that excessive immigration could "demolish Europe in the future" and destroy the current political system that had been in place throughout the post-war period.
Rogozin replied: "What is more, I actually dreamt of working in intelligence." "I was not accepted because my father-in-law was in the first main directorate of the KGB of the USSR, which is the one for foreign intelligence. At that time the resolution by [former KGB director and later the leader of the USSR Yuriy] Andropov not to accept children and in-laws had been issued. I returned from practical training in Cuba, where I studied instead of the fifth year [at university], fully confident that everything is OK, I had been through personnel checks, I was even spun on the spinning thing - i.e. passed the medical, and was supposed to go into intelligence. But I was told 'sorry' without the reasons being explained. Later I found out that this was to do with a fight against family groups in the KGB of the USSR and this is why I did not end up in the foreign intelligence service, and to be frank, I was left without the allocation of a post." Rogozin said that he was now working with intelligence but "I am not in the intelligence services and never was".
[Vladimir Pozner] noted that according to polls, the overwhelming majority of Russians had a negative attitude towards NATO and asked: "Is this bad?" Rogozin responded: "This is normal." Pozner asked: "Does this need to change with time?" Rogozin replied: "Let them prove that our public opinion needs to change."