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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry A. Kissinger

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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