Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.

— Samuel P. Huntington

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

— Samuel P. Huntington

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

— Samuel P. Huntington

People everywhere talk about Islam and the West. Presumably that has some relationship to reality, that these are entities that have some…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking…

— Samuel P. Huntington

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any,…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized,…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,…

— Samuel P. Huntington

What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other…

— Samuel P. Huntington

These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The major difference for us in America with respect to Hispanic immigration is that it is so large and that it is…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“On January 3, 1992, a meeting of Russian and American scholars took place in the auditorium of a government building in Moscow.…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

— Samuel P. Huntington

The basis of association and antagonism among countries has changed over time.

— Samuel P. Huntington

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

— Samuel P. Huntington

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

— Samuel P. Huntington

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Iran of course is Shiite, while the bulk of the Arabs are Sunni, that is a problem or could be a problem.…

— Samuel P. Huntington

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining…

— Samuel P. Huntington

If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate…

— Samuel P. Huntington

When I think of countries that I enjoyed visiting, that I would want to go back to, Italy would be one, Japan…

— Samuel P. Huntington