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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

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Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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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.
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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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In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
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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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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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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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President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.
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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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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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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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[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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