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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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[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.
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I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.
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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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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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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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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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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 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 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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