Samuel P. Huntington Quotes

If you think the shifting tectonics of world history might make for a juicy crime fiction backdrop, the last decade or so has proved you right.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

Clash of civilizations

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

In reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars, and all this propaganda, the strongest media corporations around the world, if you don't have the support of your own people. That's against the reality.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are everywhere. Russia is doing it through elections and through military actions and through trying to get involved in conversations. China is doing it economically. If you look at their infrastructure, they are everywhere in the world now and they want to continue to do that so that they have a stronghold.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.