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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

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China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.
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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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Let us fashion together a new world order.
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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.
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I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.
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Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
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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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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
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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 important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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