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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Henry A. Kissinger

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I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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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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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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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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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
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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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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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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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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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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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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
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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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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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