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

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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
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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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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
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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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I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.
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I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.
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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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