In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

- Samuel P. Huntington

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

- Samuel P. Huntington

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic…

- 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, a different civil…

- Samuel P. Huntington

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre…

- Samuel P. Huntington

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

- Samuel P. Huntington

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

- Samuel P. Huntington

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment.…

- 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 large, im…

- Samuel P. Huntington