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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
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The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.
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I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
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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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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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