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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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Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.
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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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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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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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Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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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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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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