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

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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.
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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
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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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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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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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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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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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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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Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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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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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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