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

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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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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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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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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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[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.
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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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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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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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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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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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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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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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