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

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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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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.
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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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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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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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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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