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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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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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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.
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Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.
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I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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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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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
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In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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