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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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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
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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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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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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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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.
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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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I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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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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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.
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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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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 New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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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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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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