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

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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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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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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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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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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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