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History is the memory of States.

Henry A. Kissinger

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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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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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No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.
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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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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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The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
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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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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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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.
Henry A. Kissinger