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

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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.
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Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
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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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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.
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Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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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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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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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.
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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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