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

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Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
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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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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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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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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.
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In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Statesman create ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
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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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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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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.
Henry A. Kissinger