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• When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Mind, Belief, Communist Manifesto

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Half, Century, Made

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Vices, Sides

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Democracies Have, Practice, Democracy

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Military, Israel

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas, they don't have a great impetus. But again, the revenue that natural resources produce gives them the capability and so countries like Iran are beginning to develop an industrial component.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Iran, Oil

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There is no obvious candidate. Saudi Arabia has the money but a relatively small population. Iraq was a great potential leader, as a sizable country with great oil resources and a highly educated population, but it went off in the wrong direction.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Oil, Iraq

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Thinking, Political, World

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence, now that Pakistan has a government that we can cooperate with, even though it is a military government, we are working together with them in order to promote our common interests. But obviously we also differ with Pakistan on a number of issues.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Military, Government

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Christian, Block, Thinking

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• 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.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, White, America

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• In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  World, West, Huge

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