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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. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#america #critique #emigrants #finally #gets

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#commitments #countries #democracy #direction #human

And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#beyond #competitiveness #country #currency #debt

It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#always #cop #i #incendiary #interests

This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#conflicts #either #get #good #good job

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. ↗

— John S. Tanner

#among #atlantic #before #both #both sides

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#guidance #kind #know #lacking #people

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#great #ideas #important #judgement #line

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#cannot #distance #mighty #shrink #thing

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#comes #doing #feeling #folks #good