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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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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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In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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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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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
Henry A. Kissinger
Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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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 convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
Henry A. Kissinger
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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