Top 26 Quotes by Samuel P. Huntington

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

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

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

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

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

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