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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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 longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.
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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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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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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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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
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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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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 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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
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Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
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