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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 task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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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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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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Statesman create ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.
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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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In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.
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This is awful. Do it again.
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Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
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