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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.
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Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
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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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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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For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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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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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
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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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I don't read books, I write them.
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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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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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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
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We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
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