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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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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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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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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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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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If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
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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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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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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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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 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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In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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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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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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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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