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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

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China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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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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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
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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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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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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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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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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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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
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