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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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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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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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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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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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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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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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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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