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History is the memory of States.

Henry A. Kissinger

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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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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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I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
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He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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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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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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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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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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Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
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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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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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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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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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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
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