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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.
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