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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
Henry A. Kissinger
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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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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 particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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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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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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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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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
Henry A. Kissinger
The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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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.
Henry A. Kissinger