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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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Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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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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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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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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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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