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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Henry A. Kissinger

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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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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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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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This is awful. Do it again.
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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
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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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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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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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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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