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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
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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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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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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 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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We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
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