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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger
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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.
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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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