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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 am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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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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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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One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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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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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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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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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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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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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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