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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

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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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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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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
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I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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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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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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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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We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
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No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.
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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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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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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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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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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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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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I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
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