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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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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 emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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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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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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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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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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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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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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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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