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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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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
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I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
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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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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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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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He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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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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Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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