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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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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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Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
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Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.
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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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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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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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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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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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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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