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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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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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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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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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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.
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Statesman create ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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