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

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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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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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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
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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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[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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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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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 American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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