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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 test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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