Samuel P. Huntington Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

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

“And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.”

“In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.”

“It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.”

“Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.”

“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?”

“Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.”